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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 9, 2021

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Former Walla CEO Ilan Yeshua at the Jerusalem District Court on June 9, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Judges authorize another search of key witness’s phone in Netanyahu graft trial

Jerusalem District Court orders prosecutors to give the PM’s lawyers additional investigatory materials: ‘There is no dispute that this… must be fixed as soon as possible’

11:08 am

Rivlin wraps up trip to Romania with memorial for 2010 IDF helicopter crash
6:15 pm

Man's body found inside burning car in Jerusalem
6:09 pm

Bloomberg vows to catch whoever leaked his tax records to reporters

View of a large fire that broke near Neve Ilan, outside Jerusalem on June 09, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Fires rage near Jerusalem-area towns, prompting evacuations; arson feared

The Daily Briefing

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Daily Briefing June 9 – Netanyahu will not go gentle into that good night

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

Shas head Aryeh Deri gives a press statement (together with UTJ MK Moshe Gafni and Yaakov Litzman) at the Knesset, June 8, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media reviewWhack-a-pol: What the press is saying about the new coalition’s new battles

By Joshua Davidovich

New Hope party head Gideon Saar joins coalition negotiations at the Maccabiah village in Ramat Gan on June 1, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Security beefed up for New Hope head Sa’ar amid tense run-up to government vote

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Netanyahu, not Lapid or Bennett, is the chief architect of his looming undoing

In repeatedly breaking his most solemn promises to coalition partners, Netanyahu has convinced growing ranks of potential allies it’s simply not profitable to do business with him

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

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, seen with Likud's Tzachi Hanegbi, right, and Yuval Steinitz, left during a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset, July 27, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Heading to opposition, Likud lawmakers prepare for fierce internal battles

By Raoul Wootliff

MK Yifat Shasha-Biton in 2020 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

New Hope MK files libel lawsuit against Netanyahu’s son

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 bloc’ heads debate term limits bill that could hamstring Netanyahu

Reports say Yamina resisting pressure by other parties to bar a long-serving PM from running for Knesset for 4 years; leaders want to finalize law by Thursday

Yamina chief Naftali Bennett and Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid seen conversing in the plenum on June 2, 2021, hours before Lapid's mandate to form a government expires (video screenshot)

Change bloc chiefs meet to iron out wrinkles as Likud steps up hunt for rebels

By Raoul Wootliff

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US President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the Middle East in the Cross Hall of the White House, in Washington, DC on May 20, 2021, soon after Israel and the two main Palestinian terror groups in Gaza, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, announced a ceasefire (Nicholas Kamm / AFP)

‘Obama 2.0’: Israel pleased with Biden handling of Gaza war, but alarmed by Dems

In meetings with Israeli factions across spectrum, visiting US Jewish leaders say they received same message of satisfaction with US president and concern over his party

Then-US Vice President Joe Biden at a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, March 9, 2016. (Debbie Hill, Pool via AP)

US poll finds mixed views on Biden’s attitude to Israel during Gaza conflict

Vehicles seen at a site in Sanjarian, near Tehran, previously identified as an Iranian nuclear research site, in a satellite image from October 15, 2020. (The Intel Lab/Maxar)

Satellite images show activity at Iran site exposed in Mossad-seized nuke files

Facility that allegedly had been used to produce key nuclear component was covered up in recent months, after IAEA inspection of other suspected sites

Secretary of State Antony Blinken, listens to Israel's Defense Minister Benny Gantz, June 3, 2021, as they meet at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Blinken says hundreds of sanctions to remain on Iran even if US rejoins deal

Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah gives an address on official party al-Manar TV on June 8, 2021. (Screenshot: Al-Manar)

‘Sorry to disappoint’: Nasrallah rejects COVID rumors, says he is in good health

By Emanuel Fabian

Participants in the Flag March near Jerusalem's Old City on May 10, 2021. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Jerusalem flag march to be held June 15, two days after vote on new coalition

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Right-wing nationalist parade will go ahead only if organizers come to an agreement with police; far-right MK Ben Gvir says he’ll march this Thursday anyway

Religious Zionism MK Itamar Ben Gvir is blocked by Israel Police as he tries to go up to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, June 8, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90)

Right’s Ben Gvir, Chikli blocked from Temple Mount, did not coordinate visit

Future minister sees some changes on religion and state, but largely status quo

Yamina MK Matan Kahana says he’ll reform kosher supervision, name new city rabbis, and of course there will be a full inquiry into April’s Mount Meron disaster, which killed 45

Yamina MK Matan Kahana speaks during an election campaign event in Sderot on March 17, 2021. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Defense Minister Benny Gantz addresses the Knesset on October 15, 2020. (Gideon Sharon/Knesset Spokesperson)

Defense minister says he is sticking to plan to shut Army Radio

Lin-Manuel Miranda and my German-Jewish grandma both made ‘The Heights’ what it is

The community of immigrants the film depicts have different languages and songs and foods than my family did, but it’s all very familiar, just the same

The catastrophe of American Jewry and your role in redemption

It’s official: The Orthodox are growing in strength and numbers while the rest are on the wane. But self-satisfaction is the worst possible response

Members of the Hamas terror group's military wing stand on an Israeli flag in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 27, 2021, as Hamas claims victory following an 11-day conflict with Israel. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Army chief says IDF victory in Gaza conflict may not have deterred Hamas

By Judah Ari Gross

Kohavi says military struck a ‘critical blow’ to terror groups tactically, but Israel must now turn that into a strategic victory

Blue and White MK Gabi Ashkenazi attends the annual Municipal Innovation Conference in Tel Aviv, February February 19, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

As he sums up term, Ashkenazi says Israel will strengthen PA against Hamas

By Lazar Berman

People gather to view the rubble of the al-Jalaa building in Gaza City, Friday, May 21, 2021. The building housed The Associated Press bureau in Gaza City for 15 years. (AP/John Minchillo)

Israeli envoy tells AP: Hamas sought to jam Iron Dome from your Gaza tower

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi speaks at a conference on June 9, 2021. (Screen capture)

Army chief defends censoring death of officer accused of grave security crimes

By Judah Ari Gross

Kohavi says military prevented the suspect, who died mysteriously in custody, from damaging a state secret ‘at the 11th hour’

Archaeology

Preserved in poop: 1,000-year-old chicken egg found in Yavne cesspit

Archaeologists discover almost fully intact but nearly empty egg and three rare Islamic-period bone dolls in excavation of settlement dating from Byzantine period

A health worker administers a dose of vaccine for COVID-19 to a woman at vaccination center in Mumbai, India, May 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

Israelis recommend 1-dose shortcut to herd immunity for vaccine-poor countries

By Nathan Jeffay

Under-30s are almost fully protected after just one shot, so give their second dose to others to inoculate entire populations more quickly, Ben-Gurion University team urges

Illustrative image: A doctor prepares chemotherapy medicine at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., Tuesday, March 24, 2009. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

COVID vaccine effective for 90% of cancer patients, Israeli study finds

By Nathan Jeffay

AI technology developed by Ibex highlights in green a cancer cell in a biopsy (Courtesy)

Israeli tech to help pathologists detect cancer gets FDA ‘breakthrough’ nod

By Shoshanna Solomon

Clockwise, from left: Cover of 'The Passenger,' by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz and translated into English via publisher Peter Graf (Courtesy); Kristallnacht destruction in Magdeburg, Germany, November 1938. (German Federal Archive/Wikipedia Commons); Author Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz (Courtesy Leo Baeck Institute, New York); Schoolchildren and others brought to watch the burning of synagogue furnishings on Kristallnacht in Mosbach, Germany, November 1938 (Courtesy).

'After 80 years, it's like a message in a bottle'

WWII victim’s 1938 novel about Kristallnacht makes English-language revival

By Rich Tenorio

Writer Ulrich Boschwitz fled Germany after pogrom and wrote contemporary account ‘The Passenger’ before death at sea by a Nazi torpedo. Now rediscovered, it’s earning rave reviews

Illustrative image of a fist bump; success (Worawut Prasuwan; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli tech raises whopping $10.5 billion this year, topping 2020 record total

By Shoshanna Solomon

Funding rounds are higher on average for all stages, January-June 8, with 30 investment rounds of over $100 million held, vs 21 for full year 2020

Illustrative image of a glass of milk (Alter_photo; iStock by Getty Images)

Imagindairy makes milk proteins for ‘no-cow inside’ dairy duplicates

By Shoshanna Solomon

Voiceitt launches app that allows people with speech impairments to talk with smart devices (Courtesy)

Voiceitt launches speech recognition app for people with disabilities

By Shoshanna Solomon

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11 fighters said killed in alleged Israeli strikes in Syria

The Biran family, with Eitan on the right. (Courtesy)

Israeli boy orphaned in Italy cable car crash is told about his parents’ death

President Reuven Rivlin speaking at the opening of the Jerusalem Film Festival, July 25, 2019. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Movies in reel lifeJerusalem Film Festival scheduled for August, in person

By Jessica Steinberg

Britain's Prince Charles, left, meets President Reuven Rivlin at his official residence in Jerusalem, Jan. 23, 2020 (Victoria Jones/Pool via AP)

Rivlin asks Prince Charles to intervene in case of sick UK toddler

Activists take part at a protest calling for the closure the oil refineries in the Haifa Bay in northern Israel, June 24, 2019. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

Panel reaffirms call to shut down Haifa Bay’s oil refineries within a decade

An aerial view of the central city of Bat Yam (foreground) and Tel Aviv (background) on August 13, 2013. (Yossi Zeliger / Flash90)

Interior Ministry calls off Tel Aviv merger with suburb Bat Yam

By Emanuel Fabian

A view of the minefields outside the Qaser al-Yahud Baptism Site in the Judean Desert on the border with the Jordan River on the Eastern Orthodox holiday of Epiphany on January 18, 2019. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

Israel returns to Jordan 2 who planned attack, says they’ll be dealt with there

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The main building of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Courtesy Tel Aviv Museum of Art)

Tel Aviv Museum of Art receives $15 million gift

By Jessica Steinberg

Trumpeter Avishai Cohen, artistic director of the Jerusalem Jazz Festival (Courtesy Johan Jacobs)

Strike a noteJazz festival returns to Israel Museum with all-Israeli lineup

By Jessica Steinberg

Jean-Luc Melenchon at a campaign rally in Lille, France, April 12, 2017. (Sylvain Lefevre/Getty Images via JTA)

French far-left candidate claims 2012 Jewish slayings an election conspiracy

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Aslan Karatsev during a singles match at the French Open in Paris, June 3, 2021. (Adam Pretty/Getty Images)

Russian-Israeli tennis player Karatsev reaches French Open mixed doubles final

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Protesters at the Port of Oakland on June 4, 2021, where they halted a container ship owned by the Israel-based Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd. in a campaign tied to the BDS movement. (Brooke Anderson via J: Jewish News of Northern California)

Anti-Israel protesters block Zim ship from Oakland port

By Sue Fishkoff

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