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What Matters Most On Saturday, June 12, 2021

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Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-education minister Naftali Bennett (left) at the annual Bible Quiz at the Jerusalem Theatre on Independence Day, April 19, 2018. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)

PM's son Yair hails his success 'despite media, deep state'

Bennett said set to praise and thank Netanyahu during speech at swearing-in

Yamina head to assure that coalition will serve all; Likud head likely to remain in Balfour for weeks but still no contact between sides; Lapid hopes to visit US in 1st month as FM

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)

What’s in the coalition agreements Yesh Atid signed with ‘change bloc’ partners

Yamina chief Naftali Bennett and Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid are seen on Wednesday evening, as they inform President Reuven Rivlin they have succeeded in forming a government, June 2, 2021. (Courtesy)

AnalysisWhat may change and what may stay the same under the Bennett-Lapid government

By Joseph Krauss

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Why the champions of change are forming one of Israel’s most bloated governments

Lapid railed at the dysfunction of the Netanyahu-Gantz government. Yet he and Bennett have set up one just as big and wasteful. What’s needed, paradoxically, is a bigger Knesset

Yamina party leader Naftali Bennett, left, and Yash Atid leader Yair Lapid in the Knesset during the presidential election, June 2, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Alternate Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Benny Gantz at the weekly cabinet meeting, at the Jerusalem City Hall in Jerusalem on May 9, 2021. (Amit Shabi/POOL)

Netanyahu’s last ditch bid to Gantz: ‘I’ll resign now, you’ll be PM for 3 years’

TV report says Blue and White chief rejected many offers from PM’s aides to thwart incoming coalition; proposal for immediate resignation said issued in early hours of Friday

A combination image showing former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL) and Ra'am party leader Mansour Abbas March 23, 2021. (Flash90)

Netanyahu hosted Ra’am head at Balfour residence several times in bid to woo him

Haredi extremists tare up prayer book of Women of the Wall worshippers at the Wetern Wall on June 11, 2021. (Screen capture/Facebook)

Haredi demonstrators harass Women of Wall worshipers, tear their prayer books

Rabbi Mordechai Eliezer Balla at the biennial convention of the Conference of European Rabbis (CER) in Antwerp in May 2019. (Photo by Eli Itkin)

Interview'We should not let the history of the Holocaust paralyze us'

Germany’s 1st post-WWII military rabbi aims to open door to more Jewish recruits

By Yaakov Schwartz

The son of a Holocaust survivor, Rabbi Mordechai Balla says one of the most important aspects of his new job is educating non-Jewish soldiers while ministering to all faiths’ needs

Jordan's King Abdullah II arrives for the opening parliamentary session in the capital Amman on November 10, 2019. (Khalil Mazraawi/AFP)

Report: Netanyahu took part in effort with US, Saudi Arabia to pressure Jordan

Washington Post says Israeli intelligence agencies told King Abdullah II they weren’t involved in alleged plot against him, appeared to suggest the PM was to blame

Illustrative: Members of the United Nations Security Council, with visiting German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, convene a meeting on the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, February 26, 2020, at UN headquarters. (AP Photo/ Bebeto Matthews)

Israel hopes for less bias as UAE among 5 nations named to UN Security Council

By Edith M. Lederer

Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in the launch of Gazprom's Amur Gas Processing Plant via videolink at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia on June 9, 2021. (Sergei Ilyin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin says report Russia to sell Iran advanced spy satellite is ‘garbage’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israeli officials express concern following report of sale in Washington Post, amid fears move will dramatically enhance Tehran’s ability to track bases and targets in Israel

Mossad Director Yossi Cohen attends a handover ceremony for the position of IDF chief of military intelligence, at the Glilot military base, near Tel Aviv, on March 28, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Iran blasts ex-Mossad chief for ‘threatening our nuclear scientists’

By AP and ToI Staff

Then-Iranian president Hassan Rouhani addresses the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York on September 25, 2019. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

Iran pays UN debts after 6 month delay, restoring its voting rights

By AFP

The bizarre true story of Israel’s first government

Given the rich and colorful diversity of the inaugural Knesset, it is fitting that a movie theater with 1,100 luxurious, upholstered seats became its home

Todd L. Pittinsky

From eyewitness to iWitness

Can technology reveal the Holocaust’s evil to the many young people who have not heard of it, or aren’t sure what it is, or, worse, believe vicious lies about it?

Palestinian protesters attend a demonstration against the Evyatar settlement outpost, south of Nablus, on June 4, 2021, in the West Bank. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

IDF troops helped build an illegal West Bank outpost now slated for demolition

Military says soldiers guarding Evyatar ‘strayed from their orders’ and will be investigated; troops filmed helping set up prefabricated housing

Israelis protest outside the HaKirya base in Tel Aviv, calling for the release of information about the Military Intelligence officer who died in prison, on June 7, 2021 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

TV: Jailed officer who died caused ‘great’ harm, was caught before doing worse

Unsourced report claims intel officer was motivated by ‘professional pride,’ says army was seeking 10-year prison term; in letter to IDF chief, family slams ‘defamation campaign’

A cohort of young Jews is trying to combat antisemitism and anti-Zionism on social media. Clockwise from top left: Julia Jassey, Blake Flayton, Isaac de Castro, Eve Barlow and Ben Freeman. (Photo illustration by Grace Yagel/ via JTA)

'Antisemitism on the left is disguising itself as justice'

Young US Zionists say they’re fighting antisemitism online, but is it effective?

A group of pro-Israel Jews in their 20s and 30s assertively defend Zionism and Jews on social media, but critics across the political spectrum question the campaign’s efficacy

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, meets US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in his office in Jerusalem, May 25, 2021. (Haim Zach/GPO)

White House vows to hire Jewish liaison after key groups left out of Israel call

Reps. of Orthodox, Conservative and Reform movements were among those absent from recent briefing with Blinken, highlighting a ‘surprising tone-deafness’ from Biden administration

Photographer Moshe Gold was sitting at an Acre restaurant when he looked up and saw this teen diving into the water; now included in his exhibit, 'From The Beginning,' June 3-23, 2021, Jerusalem Cinematheque (Courtesy Moshe Gold)

Time to Refocus

A tour guide-turned-photographer’s view of Israeli sites and scenes

By Jessica Steinberg

‘From the Beginning,’ an exhibit of photos taken by Moshe Gold when work dried up during pandemic, goes on show at Jerusalem Cinematheque, offering a new look at familiar places

Mohammad Hamayel, who was killed in West Bank clashes with the IDF on June 11, 2021. (Instagram)

15-year-old Palestinian killed during clashes with IDF at outpost protest

Palestinian health ministry names youth as Mohammad Hamayel, says 6 others wounded during demonstration outside Evyatar in West Bank, which was reestablished 2 months ago

A man passes by a poster of Felix Salten (L) as he enters the exhibition 'Beyond Bambi - Felix Salten and the Discovery of Viennese Modernism,' at the Wien Museum in Vienna, Austria, on March 23, 2021. (Joe Klamar/AFP)

Felix Salten, the neglected creator of ‘Bambi,’ celebrated in Vienna show

Philosopher sees the personal experience of the Jewish writer, who fled Austria after the Nazi annexation, in the book’s portrayal of ‘the way the animals must constantly escape’

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The railway tracks from where hundreds of thousands of people were directed to the gas chambers to be murdered inside the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz Birkenau or Auschwitz II, in Oswiecim, Poland, on December 7, 2019. (Markus Schreiber/AP/File)

Poland opens probe into mass burial site found near Auschwitz

By AP

Travelers at the Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on April 18, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Israel sees record number of travelers at airport since pre-COVID

Customers at a Krakow market buy figurines of Hasidic Orthodox men. (Jason Francisco via JTA)

Krakow official: Good luck figurines of Jews are antisemitic, shouldn’t be sold

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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

Education Minister Yoav Gallant at a conference in Jerusalem on March 15, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Minister decides not to give Israel Prize to professor over alleged BDS support

Liat Ben-Ari, the top prosecutor in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trial, and other prosecutors arrive at the Jerusalem District Court on May 31, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Prosecutors said to warn phone search in Netanyahu graft trial could take months

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