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What Matters Most On Thursday, June 10, 2021

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Shas party chairman Interior Minister Aryeh Deri (center), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left), and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, at the Knesset on November 4, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Shas leader says Netanyahu suggested he be prime minister

Deri bemoans not working harder to ensure Gantz remained in coalition

Likud MK David Bitan says he told Netanyahu that it was ‘a mistake’ not to give Gideon Sa’ar a ministerial position in the last government

Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman speaks during a Knesset faction meeting on May 31, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman said to tell his party members Haredim won’t be joining government

People outside the unemployment office in Jerusalem. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Liberman said planning to drastically slash COVID-era unemployment benefits

Op-ed

After Netanyahu, a chance for a government of national healing

Never before in Israel’s history have rightists, leftists, centrists and Arabs agreed to stake out common ground, together in government, in the cause of the greater good

(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)

Newly elected Israeli President Isaac Herzog (left) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset after Herzog's election, June 2, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu explored a last-minute run for president, but ultimately rejected it

By Shalom Yerushalmi

Likud officials eyed idea of leader moving to new post, hoping it would break country out of political logjam, but PM eventually said: ‘It’s better to be leader of the opposition’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Likud MK Miki Zohar (R) at the Knesset in Jerusalem on November 20, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Likud MK: I can’t see any way to prevent ‘change government,’ Netanyahu’s ouster

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)

ExplainerSunday Knesset session to swear in new coalition, oust Netanyahu: How it unfolds

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)

Live updates (closed)

Walking back voter fraud claim, Likud commits to ‘peaceful transfer of power’

Party says Netanyahu not alleging election was rigged but that Bennett ‘hijacked votes from the right and shifted them to the left’ by breaking promises not to empower Lapid, Ra’am

3:45 pm

Legal adviser said to decide date of Netanyahu's exit from PM's residence will be agreed with Bennett
6:30 pm

Ilhan Omar insists she wasn’t equating US, Israel with terror groups after outcry
6:07 pm

Jewish groups press Biden to open pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants

Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben Gvir arrives for a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on February 24, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Times of Israel Podcast

Daily Briefing June 10 – Why Itamar Ben Gvir won’t waive his right to flag march

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

Head of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party Itamar Ben Gvir (C) with Bentzi Gopstein (R) and Baruch Marzel (L) at the launch of the party's election campaign in Jerusalem on February 15, 2020. (Sindel/Flash90)

Ben Gvir barred from Muslim Quarter march, Temple Mt. visit, amid violence fears

Jerry Isaak-Shapiro

Do I wear the kippah or switch to a baseball cap?

We can be proud demonstration-walking, flag-holding, stand-together Jews-and-Zionists and also worry about everyone else who deserves that worry

Glenn Yago and James Prince

Pushing past Groundhog Day in Gaza

Opinion: Forget trying to reanimate the moribund peace process and instead, start by improving life in Gaza with help from government-supported investors and businesses

This is how my favorite combat veteran served her country

My daughter had qualms about serving in the West Bank – but she also helped uncover information about an imminent terrorist attack. I salute her.

Norman S. Lipson

‘Breathe in, breathe out’

In a crisis of self and faith, I am striving to remember that our obligation is to try and help our world, as well as ourselves, strive toward wholeness

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Illustrative: An Israeli soldier from the Givati Brigade searches in the refugee camp in the West Bank city of Jenin, on June 19, 2014 (IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)

2 PA security officers, terror suspect shot dead in clash with Israeli troops

View of a forest fire raging in Lifta at the entrance to Jerusalem, on June 07, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Huge forest fires near Jerusalem contained as terror suspicions mount

Illustrative photo of a man being arrested (Matanya Tausig/Flash90)

5 Arab Israelis arrested for attacks on Jews during May’s unrest

Security services say 3 of the suspects shot at a Jewish man, other 2 alleged to have taken part in ‘nationalistic’ assaults

Border police patrol the streets of the central Israeli city of Lod after riots. May 19, 2021 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

7 Jewish Israelis arrested for attack on Arab man last month

Muhammad, 12, who was injured by a firebomb at his home in Jaffa, pictured in his bed at Sheba Medical Center (courtesy of Sheba Medical Center)

3 arrested over firebombing that seriously hurt 12-year-old Arab boy in Jaffa

From the blogs

Yes to term limits — an emphatic no to the demand that Netanyahu ‘cool off’

New Hope’s proposal that would deny the PM the right to stand for office for the next four years is a step too far, a step away from fundamental democratic rights

Illustrative: Pedestrians walk near the Yeshiva Kehilath Yakov School in the South Williamsburg neighborhood, April 9, 2019, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

'Their journey is a classic New York City story'

In NYC’s hipster mecca of Williamsburg, Hasidic Jews are the real counterculture

The authors of new book ‘A Fortress in Brooklyn’ say Hasidim represent an alternate version of the assimilated ‘New York Jew’ in an old-new shtetl that’s a purely American creation

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, December 9, 2020. (John Bazemore/AP)

Pompeo says F-35 sale to UAE was ‘critical’ to the Abraham Accords

Former US secretary of state suggests Biden’s support for Israel during the recent Gaza war was hiding ‘an entirely different message’

Sven Koopmans (Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal / Wikipedia)

Israeli officials snubbed EU peace envoy during recent visit — report

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

US urges sides to avoid ‘provocations’ after Israeli approval of Jerusalem march

By AFP and Jacob Magid

Netanyahu demand not to raze illegal outpost rebuffed by Gantz

In government’s final days, PM urges holding off on order to demolish wildcat Evyatar community, setting up likely first crisis of next coalition

Illegal Evyatar outpost in northern West Bank on May 25, 2021. ('Evyatar - new town in Samaria'/Facebook)

A convoy of trucks loaded with construction equipment provided by Egypt arrives at the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, on June 4, 2021. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Israel said to ask Egypt to halt entry of cement, building materials into Gaza

US President Joe Biden gestures as he speaks to American service members at RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk, England on June 9, 2021. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

Biden administration laying groundwork for push to expand Abraham Accords

By Ellen Knickmeyer, Aya Batrawy and Laurie Kellman

Former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot speaks during a conference in Netanya on March 18, 2019. (Flash90)

Ex-IDF chief: Iran nuclear deal would allow army to focus elsewhere

By Judah Ari Gross

Former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy speaks at a conference commemorating his successor, Meir Dagan, in Netanya on June 9, 2021. (Tamir Bargig/Netanya Academic College)

Ex-spymaster: PM bragging about Israeli deeds, abilities broke long-time policy

By Judah Ari Gross

Ebrahim Raisi, head of Iran's judiciary, waves to media as he attends at the Interior Ministry to register his candidacy for the June 18 presidential elections at the elections headquarters of the Interior Ministry in Tehran, Iran, May 15, 2021. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

Iran judiciary chief stages first campaign rally despite virus

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative image: an oral vaccine in a pipette. (zsv3207 via iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli oral COVID vaccine works as booster, animal trial finds

By Nathan Jeffay

Given as drops on the tongue, Galilee-made MigVax could help address complex challenges of getting boosters to millions around the world over coming months, inventors say

Illustrative image: a human eye (Ivan-balvan vua iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli doctors identify and fix post-vaccine problem for transplanted corneas

By Nathan Jeffay

A cytokine storm. (selvanegra via iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli scientists move closer to averting deadly immune overreaction to COVID

By Nathan Jeffay

Author Isaac Bashevis Singer poses for a portrait outside the S. Rabinowitz Hebrew Book Store on New York's Lower East Side in 1968. (David Attie/Getty Images/ via JTA/ SUE)

How Wikipedia warriors made ‘Polish writer’ Isaac Bashevis Singer Jewish again

In this handout photo from June 10, 2021, scuba divers with an ancient stone anchor that was found at the Tel Dor archaeological site in northern Israel. (Amir Yurman of the University of Haifa's Maritime Workshop)

Ancient stone anchor used for 2,000 years found on Israel’s northern coast

Parks authority says the artifact, uncovered in an underwater dig at Tel Dor, was first used in the Bronze Age

Doni Zasloff and Eric Lindberg are Nefesh Mountain. (Lawrence Rickford/via JTA)

Anne Frank’s famous optimism gets a bluegrass twang

By Gabe Friedman

New Jersey duo Nefesh Mountain’s new song ‘Piece Of The Sun (For Anne Frank)’ debuts just ahead of what would have been the Holocaust diarist’s 92nd birthday on June 12

Brazilian parents protest teaching Anne Frank diary with sex passages left in

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Writers cut references to Anne Frank, Israel from novels after online complaints

By Andrew Lapin

More Headlines

Congressional Progressive Caucus member Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

12 Jewish Democrats call on Ilhan Omar to clarify remarks on US, Israel, Taliban

Ewa Jasiewicz attends a protest rally against Israel in Istanbul, Turkey on June 3, 2010. (Bulent Kilic/AFP via Getty Images/via JTA)

Woman who vandalized Warsaw Ghetto is teaching UK teachers about antisemitism

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The attorney for the family of a Military Intelligence officer who died in prison attends a hearing at the military court at IDF headquarter in Tel Aviv, on June 7, 2021. (Flash90)

Army, family of officer who died in military prison spar over releasing his name

By Judah Ari Gross

Former CEO of Walla news website Ilan Yeshua arrives for his testimony in the corruption trail against Prime Minister Netanyahu, seen at the District Court in Jerusalem, June 9, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Court grants defense’s request to search phone of key witness in Netanyahu trial

Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Meir Turgeman at an event in Jerusalem on September 1, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ex-deputy mayor of Jerusalem, several others indicted in bribery case

Then-Brig. Gen. Ofer Winter attends a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset, on October 22, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

IDF chief reprimands brigadier general for unapproved call with Bennett

By Judah Ari Gross

Screen capture from video of Iranian dissident judoka Saeid Mollaei, in white, competing for Mongolia during a bout against Israeli Din Yaacov Gemer during the World Judo Championships in Hungary, June 8, 2021. (YouTube)

Exiled Iranian judoka finally faces Israeli competitor, and wins

A High Court of Justice hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on May 4, 2020. (Abir Sultan/Pool/AFP)

2020 saw sharp spike in threats, harassment of Israeli judges – report

Russia's Aslan Karatsev plays a forehand return to Serbia's Novak Djokovic during their ATP 250 Serbia Open semi-final singles tennis match at The Novak Tennis Centre in Belgrade on April 24, 2021. (PEDJA MILOSAVLJEVIC / AFP)

Russian-Israeli tennis player defeated in French Open mixed-doubles final

By AP and ToI Staff

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

Israeli child survivor of Italy’s cable car crash leaves hospital

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative photo of a man trying on a shtreimel in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim, Jerusalem. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

PETA hails Israel as first country to ban fur, but major exceptions remain

In this grab taken from video France's President Emmanuel Macron, center, is slapped by a man, in green T-shirt, during a visit to Tain-l’Hermitage, in France on June 8, 2021. (BFM TV via AP)

Police find Mein Kampf copy at home of suspect who filmed Macron being slapped

By AP and ToI Staff

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