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What Matters Most On Friday, June 11, 2021

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A photo montage shows the leaders of the eight parties in the so-called 'change government': Clockwise from top left: Merav Michaeli (Labor), Naftali Bennett (Yamina), Benny Gantz (Blue and White), Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu), Gideon Sa'ar (New Hope), Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid), Mansour Abbas (Ra'am) and Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz). (All photos: Flash90)

Bennett: These deals mark end of 2.5-year political crisis

Lapid finalizes coalition deals with all parties in incoming ‘change government’

Yamina is the last faction to formally announce it has signed an agreement with Yesh Atid before Friday afternoon deadline, ahead of Sunday’s swearing-in vote

IPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a ceremony in Jerusalem on June 6, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Netanyahu associates: He knows he can’t prevent ‘change government’ taking power

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)

Likud promises peaceful transition of power, again accuses Bennett of fraud

Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen in an interview with Channel 12 broadcast on June 10, 2021 (Screencapture)

In stunning, revelatory interview, ex-Mossad chief warns Iran, defends Netanyahu

Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen in an interview with Channel 12 broadcast on June 10, 2021 (Channel 12)

TranscriptKey passages from outgoing Mossad chief’s unprecedented TV interview

Iran's Governor to the International Atomic Energy Agency Kazem Gharib Abadi, Political deputy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran Abbas Araghchi, and Deputy Secretary General and Political Director of the European External Action Service Enrique Mora stand in front of the Grand Hotel Vienna, where where closed-door nuclear talks take place in Vienna, Austria, on June 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Lisa Leutner)

US lifts some Iran sanctions ahead of renewed nuclear talks

By Agencies and ToI Staff

In this photo released on April 22, 2020, by Sepahnews, an Iranian rocket carrying a satellite is launched from an undisclosed site believed to be in Iran's Semnan province. (Sepahnews via AP)

Russia said providing Iran advanced spy satellite to surveil military targets

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Officials say satellite would be a major upgrade to Iranian capabilities, letting Tehran continuously photograph Israeli and US bases in Mideast and share data with terror groups

Iran's Governor to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Kazem Gharib Abadi attends the IAEA Board of Governors meeting at the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on June 7, 2021. (JOE KLAMAR / AFP)

Iran rejects UN report it is stalling on answering queries on nuclear sites

By AFP

Illustrative: Iranian warships are seen in the Atlantic Ocean, in a photo released on June 10, 2021. (Iranian Army via AP)

Iran warships sail through Atlantic, said heading for US-sanctioned Venezuela

By Isabel Debre and Jon Gambrell

In this November 16, 1980 file photo, Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin as he appeared on the ABC program 'Good Morning America.' (AP Photo, File)

Times Will Tell

Podcast: Meet the prime minister who led Israel’s first political ‘Upheaval’

For director Jonathan Gruber, Menachem Begin’s messages of fighting for Jewish pride and accepting all Jews as brothers has never been more timely

The McFalafel. (McDonald's)

Have a bit o' pita

McDonald’s to start serving falafel, kebab meals… in pita

Fastfood restaurants in Israel to begin offering dishes in pita bread from next month

Cantor Immanuel Zucker sings Psalms at the reopening ceremony of the Rumbach Synagogue, June 10, 2021. (Photo by Akos Szentgyorgyi)

Reporter's notebookRumbach's new incarnation welcomes all denominations, faiths

After 60 years of decay Budapest’s grand Rumbach synagogue has new lease on life

By Yaakov Schwartz

Inaugurated Thursday, the richly renovated synagogue compound – a WWII deportation point for Jews sent to their deaths – is now a lively multipurpose Jewish cultural center

Omer Yankelevitch

Israel and world Jewry: It should be a love story

The new government must invest in the full diversity of the Jewish people, globally; the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs has laid the groundwork to do so

Enough is enough: Learning to be content

Moses and Aaron drive home the point that everyone’s every benefit is divinely ordained. Korach should know better than to be jealous. I should too (Korach)

Smoke to the east of us: Is Jordan on fire?

Israel’s new government must take decisive measures to help douse the flames posing a grave threat to Hashemite stability

Ari M. Solomont

Checking motivations at the border

If you see life getting harder in the US and are mulling Israel instead, I’m here to tell you that you need to actually want to live here for a successful aliyah

A tunnel dug under an UNRWA school in Gaza that was exposed after the May 2021 war in the coastal enclave. (Screen capture/Kan public broadcaster)

Photos show Hamas tunnel dug underneath courtyard of UNWRA school in Gaza

Pictures published days after UN agency for Palestinian refugees announced discovery of shaft, and after group’s head thrown out of Strip for saying IDF strikes were ‘precise’

Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh at a groundbreaking ceremony for the Rafah Medical Complex in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip on November 23, 2019. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Ismail Haniyeh said planning trip to Iran, Lebanon as Cairo negotiations stall

By Emanuel Fabian

A Hamas police officer stands guards at the main square in front of large portraits of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, while Hamas leaders meet with Egypt's intelligence chief Abbas Kamel, unseen, in Gaza City, May 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

AnalysisSissi eyes Gaza rebuilding to enhance Egypt’s regional clout

By AFP

File: Far-right Religious Zionism party lawmaker MK Itamar Ben Gvir visits the Damascus Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem, on June 10, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Violence erupts at Old City flashpoint as far right’s Ben Gvir holds protest

Controversy-courting lawmaker carries Israeli flag to Damascus Gate after police ban him from marching through Muslim Quarter; at least 5 arrested; Hamas issues warning

Israelis wave national flags during a Jerusalem Day march, in Jerusalem, May 10, 2021. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Jerusalem flag march organizers say deal reached with cops on Tuesday’s route

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to members of the Christian press during an event in Jerusalem on October 14, 2018. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Evangelical supporters of Israel concerned as Netanyahu being ousted from power

No Israeli leader has cultivated evangelical support like Netanyahu and many worry his imminent departure could sour ties with one of the Jewish state’s main backers

Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar addresses media after lunch at the Mercado Central in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on August 11, 2020, primary election day in Minnesota. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

After outcry, Omar insists she wasn’t equating US, Israel with terror groups

Hamas officials present Al Jazeera with a certificate after what the terror group called the outlet's 'high level of nationalism' in its coverage of last month's conflict with Israel, June 10, 2021 (via Twitter)

Hamas honors Al Jazeera for ‘highly professional’ coverage of Gaza conflict

On visit to temporary Gaza bureau of Qatar-funded agency after old office was leveled by IDF, terror group officials present certificate, laud outlet’s ‘high level of nationalism’

Illustrative: An Israeli tank takes position on the Israel-Gaza border. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

IDF dismisses officer over tank fire at Gazan farmers during May conflict

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF bulldozers work on the Israeli-Gaza border, east of Khan Yunis, in southern Gaza Strip, on June 2, 2021. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Army nabs infiltrator from Gaza armed with bomb, knives, grenade

An exhibit at the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience in New Orleans focuses on the large number of Jewish Southerners who became traveling merchants. The museum opened to the public in late May. (Courtesy of the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience/ via JTA)

'Our roots and identity are being validated'

A new museum in New Orleans puts family histories of Southern Jews on display

By Jonah Goldman Kay

The product of more than three decades of effort, the institution features relics from large and small Jewish communities spread across the region

Tel Tsaf rounded silos. (Boaz Garfinkel/Hebrew University)

ArchaeologyGrain was exchanged for exotic artifacts -- status symbols

7,000-year-old seal impression marks prehistoric site as early trade hub

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

A twice-stamped little ancient blob of clay discovered in Tel Tsaf — alongside other evidence — leads researchers to deduce a millennia-old complex mercantile exchange

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Passengers walk in the arrivals hall at the Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on March 8, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)

Israel plans to allow individual tourists back into the country starting July 1

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Muntasir Shalabi, suspect in a May 2, 2021, West Bank drive-by shooting, in an undated photo (Courtesy)

Palestinian indicted for shooting death of yeshiva student at Tapuah junction

By Stuart Winer

View of the Givat Asaf outpost, near the settlement of Beit El in the West Bank on May 15, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash 90)

Two settler outposts said to refuse the protection of female soldiers

President Reuven Rivlin spoke at a joint session of the Romanian Parliament in Bucharest on Wednesday, June 9, 2021. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Rivlin wraps up trip to Romania after celebrating warm ties

Travelers in the departures hall at Ben Gurion Airport on April 18, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Ministers okay lifting ban on travel to Ethiopia, Turkey and Ukraine

Illustrative -- German police officers in Frankfurt, Germany, Oct.7, 2020 (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Frankfurt dissolves elite police unit over far-right chats, neo-Nazi symbols

By AFP

Likud MK Nir Barkat speaks at a party conference in Tel Aviv on June 10, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Signaling entry into Likud leadership race, Barkat calls to delay party primary

Israeli security forces spray protesters with skunk water during clashes in Umm al-Fahm in northern Israel, on May 19, 2021. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

Arab Israeli arrested for shooting at cops during May’s unrest

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

This image taken from a September 14, 2019, video and released in a US Attorney detention memorandum, shows Brian Mark Lemley Jr, driving, and Patrik Mathews, passenger seat, passing through a toll booth near Norfolk, Va., en route to Georgia. (US Attorney via AP)

Neo-Nazi members plead guilty to attack plot at Virginia gun rights rally

By Michael Kunzelman

Uzia Galil, a founding father of Israel's high tech industry (YouTube screenshot)

Uzia Galil, a founding father of Israel’s tech industry, dies aged 96

By Shoshanna Solomon

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