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What Matters Most On Tuesday, June 15, 2021

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Nationalist Israeli Jews hold Israeli flags and dance near Jerusalem's Old City, June 15, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 )

Live updates (closed)

Hamas claims flag march victory: ‘Israel rerouted the parade and flights’

Parade participants arrive at Western Wall amid songs against Arabs, newly appointed prime minister; Palestinian Red Cresent says over 30 injured in clashes outside Old City

7:28 pm

Flag parade ends, without major incident, with prayer service at Western Wall
7:15 pm

Gantz holding security assessment with defense chiefs
7:06 pm

Judge dismisses case against Amir Ohana due to his parliamentary immunity

Op-ed

The PM’s official home isn’t Netanyahu’s personal castle; he should leave ASAP

Netanyahu, now the opposition chief, is still using the PM’s residence on Balfour Street as if he hasn’t been voted out of office, exploiting the lack of clear rules of transition

A protester dressed up as a cleaner demonstrates against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside the official residence of the prime minister in Jerusalem, as Netanyahu is due at his trial at the Jerusalem District Court, February 8, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

File: US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley meets then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, June 7, 2017. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Though no longer premier, Netanyahu hosts Nikki Haley at official residence

Former US envoy to the United Nations posts photo of herself with opposition leader, calling him ‘prime minister,’ also meets Foreign Minister Lapid

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu leads a meeting of opposition MKs in the Knesset on June 14, 2021, a day after losing power (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Transfer of powerAfter very brief handover to Bennett, Netanyahu vows to ‘rescue Israel’ from him

Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a meeting of the right-wing and religious opposition parties at the Knesset, June 14, 2021. At left is Likud MK Yariv Levin; at right is Likud former coalition chief MK MIki Zohar (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

To sire with loveNo longer PM, Netanyahu quips to ally: Call me ‘Your highness’

From the blogs

Yossi Klein Halevi

Why this fractious coalition gives me hope

If all it achieves is to liberate Israel from those who have tried to unravel the delicate balance between nationalism and democracy, decency and power, then dayenu – it’s enough!

Palestinian boys line up to register for a summer camp organized by Hamas's military wing, the Iz-Ad Din Al-Qassam Brigades, in Gaza City, on June 14, 2021. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Iron Dome batteries deployed; extra troops sent to West Bank

IDF prepares for fresh Gaza conflict amid tensions over Jerusalem flag march

Tuesday’s parade by ultranationalist Jews through Old City will be first major test for new government amid Palestinian threats of violence; US embassy issues travel warning

Fire and rescue services put out a fire allegedly sparked in the Western Negev by arson balloons launched by Gaza terrorists, June 16, 2021. (Itzik Lugasi/KKL-JNF)

Incendiary balloons from Gaza spark fires in south ahead of Jerusalem flag march

Israel's new minister of public security, Omer Barlev, arrives for a group photo of the newly sworn-in government at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on June 14, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Amid threats from Gaza, police minister says flag march to proceed as scheduled

By Emanuel Fabian

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Prehistorian Dr. Omry Barzilai with a flint tool from 50,000-year-old Boker Tachtit. (Israel Antiquities Authority)

ArchaeologyNew C-14 and OSL dates give a 6,000 year overlap of species

Prehistoric man lived with and loved Neanderthals in the Negev 50,000 years ago

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Using precision carbon dating and secure archaeological contexts, researchers have proof for the first time of when the two cultures overlapped — and where

Screen capture from video of MKs holding up potraits of terror victims during a a protest against the confirmation of the new government, June 13, 2021. (YouTube)

Terror victims’ grandfather slams far-right MKs for using their pics in protest

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Chaim Fogel, who lost son, daughter-in-law, 3 grandchildren in 2011 attack, says family stays out of political disputes, calls use of photos to disrupt Bennett speech ‘outrageous’

Likud MK David Bitan (L) and Religious Zionism leader Bezalel Smotrich (R). (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud MK says far-right Smotrich responsible for Netanyahu’s ouster

The Daily Briefing

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Daily Briefing June 15 – Is Washington pleased with Israel’s new government?

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The subterranean lake in the Ayalon Cave near Ramle, in central Israel. (Israel Ne'eman)

Scientists warn that flooding cave will ruin unique 5-million-year-old ecosystem

Blind, colorless arthropods make their home in Ayalon Cave in central Israel, thriving in dark, oxygen-free environment, fed by sulfurous water rising from deep in the earth

An oil tanker docked at the Europe Asia Pipeline Company's port, close to the coral reef nature reserve of Eilat in southern Israel. (Society for the Protection of Nature)

Losing no time, green groups urge new government to stop ‘dangerous’ oil deal

Light in single layer materials, as captured by researchers from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (Prof. Ido Kaminer and his research team)

Israeli scientists show they can ‘shrink’ optical technology by 1,000 times

By Nathan Jeffay

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Bennett is the new first-among-equals type of premier Netanyahu created

In his bid to tear apart Gantz’s Blue and White alliance, the Likud leader brought strange new institutions into being. His opponents could not have united without them

Newly elected Prime Minister Naftali Bennett waves, with Yair Lapid (left) and Gideon Sa'ar (right) alongside him, after their new coalition wins Knesset approval, June 13, 2021 (Haim Zach / GPO)

Naftali Bennett visiting the grave of Lt. Col. Emmanuel Moreno, at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on June 14, 2021. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Bennett’s former commander says he can no longer call him ‘Naftul’

My friend Naftali is now Israel’s prime minister

We met when the Bennetts came to services at Manhattan’s KJ congregation and discovered a Judaism that, like Avraham’s tent, is open to all

Trying hard to trust

There are so many stories of Arabs and Jews hurting each other. In moving to Israel, I try to be on the team that adds to the goodwill part of the ledger

Yohanan Plesner

This government can beat expectations and even achieve historic change

From passing a budget and ending toxic discourse to ensuring that a slim 61 majority of MKs can’t trample democracy, Israelis could soon feel the change

Brandy Shufutinsky

Why did BLM hop on the BDS wagon? Follow the money

Someone at Black Lives Matter decided time was running out on their ability to profit off of Black pain and adopted the UNRWA moneymaking playbook

A member of an Israeli tech delegation uses his phone in a video call during an evening meeting with Emirati counterparts, in Dubai on October 25, 2020. (Karim SAHIB / AFP)

UAE, Bahrain welcome new Israeli government, signaling Abraham Accords stability

Historic normalization deals between Israel and 4 Arab nations were hallmark of Netanyahu and Trump administrations; FM Lapid indicates eagerness to expand on ties

Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman (L) with Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg (C) and Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, June 14, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

No tax hike, mass investment: The new government’s seemingly contradictory plans

By Michael Bachner

Director General of the National Security Studies (INSS) Amos Yadlin speaks at a protest against then-Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on November 14, 2020. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90)

Bennett said to eye ex-general Yadlin for national security adviser job

People shop, some wearing face masks at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, May 26, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel drops indoor mask requirement Tuesday, as daily cases near zero

Face coverings still required for those unvaccinated in healthcare facilities, people on their way to quarantine, and airplane passengers

The Yitzhak Rabin Border Terminal at the Wadi Araba crossing between Israel and Jordan. (CC BY 2.5, Wikipedia, NYC2TLV)

Israel to reopen border crossing with Jordan closed since start of pandemic

Aranka Engel, 103, left, holds the hand of fellow Holocaust survivor Jean Kurz, 81, while watching Orthodox Jewish singer Yaakov Shwekey perform at a concert honoring them and dozens of other Holocaust survivors on Monday, June 14, 2021, at the Yeshivah of Flatbush theater at Joel Braverman High School in the Brooklyn borough of New York. It was the first large gathering for New York-area Holocaust survivors after more than a year of isolation due to the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

NY Holocaust survivors celebrated at concert after COVID isolation

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO

Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn addresses a demonstration against US President Donald Trump's state visit to the UK in central London on June 4, 2019. (Tolga Akmen/AFP)

Antisemitism ‘mainstreamed’ in Western European politics, says Israeli study

By Lazar Berman

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

ADL poll: 77% of US Jews have more fear of antisemitism after Gaza fighting

By JTA and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn, New York, April 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Israeli and American Jews know little about each other, new study finds

Interview

UK photographer fed up with antisemitic fake news turns lens to social media

By Karen Chernick

During Operation Guardian of the Walls, Blake Ezra widened his aperture to focus on fighting online hate and busting myths with his popular Instagram account

More Headlines

Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda waits for former Congo vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba to enter the court room of the International Criminal Court to stand trial with Aime Kilolo Musamba, Jean-Jacques Mangenda Kabongo, Fidele Babala Wandu and Narcisse Arido, on charges including corruptly influencing witnesses by giving them money and instructions to provide false testimony, and presenting false evidence, in The Hague, Netherlands, September 29, 2015. (AP/Peter Dejong/File)

Outgoing ICC prosecutor says court ‘not ignoring anything’ from Israel-Hamas war

By AP and ToI Staff

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)

G7 leaders, NATO members vow to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons

By AP and ToI Staff

CropX sensors are installed in minutes and connect to the cloud to constantly monitor farmers’ fields (CropX)

Five Israeli startups make World Economic Forum tech pioneers list

By Shoshanna Solomon

Etgar Keret, right, and Shuli Rand, center, in their initial Writers Festival appearance in Jerusalem that was reprised June 14, 2021 (Courtesy Mishkenot Shaananim)

WordplayTogether again, Etgar Keret and Shuli Rand entertain onstage

By Jessica Steinberg

Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer attends a session of the Knesset's Finance Committee on Monday, June 3 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Stanley Fischer resigns from Bank Hapoalim board

By Shoshanna Solomon

Then-MK Dov Lipman during a Yesh Atid party meeting in the Knesset, January 6, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ex-MK Dov Lipman ousted by Zionist umbrella group over sexual harassments claims

Illustrative: Googleplex headquarters in Mountain View, California. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

In public letter, Silicon Valley tech leaders take a stand against antisemitism

By Gabriel Greschler

Surrounded by state legislators and Jewish leaders, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, center, holds up two bills that he signed, Monday, June 14, 2021, at the Shul of Bal Harbour, a Jewish community center in Surfside, Fla. DeSantis visited the South Florida temple to denounce anti-Semitism and stand with Israel, while signing a bill into law that would require public schools in his state to set aside moments of silence for children to meditate or pray. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

In synagogue, Florida governor signs law mandating moment for school prayer

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN

In this file photo, police use water canons to clear a blocked road near the German federal parliament, as people attend a protest rally in Berlin, Germany, against the coronavirus restrictions in Germany in July 2020. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, file)

German officials, Jewish groups warn far-right extremism on the rise

By Frank Jordans

US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks at a news conference after visiting the Holocaust Museum, outside the US Capitol, on June 14, 2021. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

Marjorie Taylor Greene apologizes for comparing mask requirements to Holocaust

People march past the Cherryhill Village Mall parking lot where Nathaniel Veltman was arrested during the multi-faith march to end hatred, in London, Ontario, Canada, on June 11, 2021. (Nicole OSBORNE / AFP)

Terror charges filed against suspect in Canada killing of Muslim family

By AP

A guard tower and barbed wire fence surround a detention facility in the Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux in western China's Xinjiang region. December 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

UN rights experts claim Chinese minorities targeted in organ harvesting

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