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What Matters Most On Friday, June 18, 2021

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Israel begins the transfer of some 1 million vaccines to the Palestinian Authority on Friday June 18 2021 (COGAT)

Palestinians reject demand not to send some shots to Gaza

Israel starts delivery of at least a million COVID vaccine doses to Palestinians

In exchange, Jewish state will receive future shipments earmarked for Ramallah; Israel has faced widespread criticism for failing to help Palestinians with inoculation drive

Workers prepare a body before a funeral procession at a special morgue for people who died from COVID-19 in the central Israeli city of Holon, near Tel Aviv, January 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

1 in 4 COVID patients hospitalized while vitamin D deficient die – Israeli study

By Nathan Jeffay

Nurses vaccinating a child (TAO EDGE via iStock by Getty Images)

EU studying Arab Israelis as a paragon of child vaccination, to help Europe

By Nathan Jeffay

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, on March 18, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu family set to remain in official PM’s residence for several more weeks

Former PM will then move to his Caesarea home for a few months while security arrangements are made at his private Jerusalem apartment, sources say

Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 10, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

Report: Netanyahu ordered papers shredded before leaving office

Israel's outgoing then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses lawmakers during a special session to vote on a new government at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 13, 2021. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

SpeechFull text: Netanyahu’s furious final speech after 12 years as prime minister

Masked Palestinian members of the Islamic Jihad terror group launch incendiary balloons from Gaza toward Israel on June 15, 2021. (Atia Mohammed/FLASH90)

Israel media review

Back so soon? What the press is saying about a pesky ex-PM and Gaza fighting

By Joshua Davidovich

The IDF is again threatening to go to war in Gaza as balloons set the south ablaze, and pundits see much behind Netanyahu’s slothlike move away from his former official residence

Palestinians and supporters demonstrating in front of then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office, against the law limiting Israeli-Palestinian family reunification on April 14, 2013. (Sliman Khader/FLASH90)

Gantz to Netanyahu: By foiling family reunification law, you’re harming security

Worshippers raise the Palestinian flag at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City on June 18, 2021. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Palestinians clash with police on Temple Mount, amid fear of fresh Gaza fighting

By Emanuel Fabian

Sheikh Yusuf Albaz appears for a hearing at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on June 17, 2021. (Flash90)

Court extends arrest of Lod imam suspected of inciting violence

Illustrative: A fireball lights up the night sky above buildings near Khan Younis in southern Gaza, as IDF planes hit a Hamas site in the Palestinian enclave, on June 17, 2021. (Screen capture)

IDF hits targets across Gaza after arson attacks, readies for renewed fighting

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel threatens fresh campaign as it bombs rocket launchers and Hamas sites after 3rd day of fires sparked by incendiary balloons; Hamas derides ‘theatrics’

Fire damage to woodlands in southern Israel, allegedly caused by incendiary balloons from the Gaza Strip, June 17, 2021. (video screenshot)

Gaza incendiary balloons spark 8 fires in Israel as assault from Strip continues

File - Israeli security forces search the area where a Palestinian man was suspected of having entered southern Israel from the Gaza Strip on May 30, 2021. (Hamal Darom)

Gazan indicted after infiltrating Israel, stabbing security guard

Analysis

Likely Raisi win in Iran election sees Khamenei setting stage for a successor

Path has been cleared for triumph in Friday’s vote of judiciary chief who oversaw executions of thousands, as Supreme Leader consolidates power and prepares his legacy

A supporter of Iranian presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi holds a picture of him with Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during an election campaign rally in the capital Tehran, on June 14, 2021. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Supporters of presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi hold signs during a rally in Tehran, Iran, June 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran begins presidential vote tipped in favor of hardliner under US sanctions

By Jon Gambrell

This combination of four photos shows candidates for the June 18, 2021, Iranian presidential elections from left to right; Abdolnasser Hemmati, Mohsen Rezaei, Amir Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi and Ebrahim Raisi. (AP Photo)

Who are the candidates in Iran’s presidential election?

By AP

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Chana Tannenbaum

The 37 years that are missing in the Torah

That insecure, hungry, and traumatic experience of wandering in the desert forged the Israelites into a responsible, self-governing nation (Hukat)

Kenneth Jacobson

Jewish fears about rising antisemitism are a wake-up call to America

Here’s what we need to do to be sure Jews won’t fear for their safety in the country that has historically been better for them than any other

Summer camp changed my life forever

Nothing passes the torch of Jewish identity to the next generation better than Jewish overnight camp, for it makes being Jewish joyful and fun

It’s time to fight the United Nations’ anti-Israel bias

How long will world powers, including the United States, allow the UN’s obvious attempts to isolate and demonize Israel continue?

Illustrative: A nurse stands in the children's ICU for coronavirus patients at Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem on January 22, 2020. (Courtesy/Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem)

Israel seeing spike in childhood illness RSV after it receded during COVID

Doctors speculate lockdowns kept people from contracting the virus, lowering immunity to it as the general population emerged from restrictions

Dr. Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz speaks at the annual Greenbelt arts, faith, and justice festival in the UK in 2016. (YouTube)

UK teacher dropped by Orthodox school after she receives rabbinical ordination

By Jenni Frazer

Statement from Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis says Rabba Dr. Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz ‘stepped beyond the boundaries of mainstream Orthodoxy’

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken looks on as he and U.S. President Joe Biden meet Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for the U.S.-Russia summit at Villa La Grange in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, June 16, 2021. (Denis Balibouse/Pool Photo via AP)

Blinken speaks to Lapid for second time in four days

Administration continues intense engagement with new Israeli government; talks focus on need to improve relations with Palestinians, Israel’s security and Iran

Defense Minister Benny Gantz meets with a delegation from the Jewish Institute for National Security of America at his office in Tel Aviv, June 17, 2021. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Gantz: Israel working with US to step up Iran nuclear oversight

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi speaks at a ceremony on February 28, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

After delay, IDF chief heads to DC to discuss Iran nuke threat with US officials

By Judah Ari Gross

Jon Lovitz, a cast member in 'Casino Jack,' poses at the premiere of the film at American Film Institute's AFI Fest 2010 in Los Angeles, Monday, November 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Interview'Being the Chosen People means choosing to do what's right'

Getting serious for a change, Jon Lovitz reflects on childhood, faith and Israel

By Adam Reinherz

The comedian, singer and former ‘Saturday Night Live’ cast member speaks about antisemitism and the media’s portrayal of the Jewish state

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

Times Will Tell

Podcast: 50,000 years ago, early man and Neanderthals had their first date

Israel Antiquities Authority prehistorian Omry Barzilai puts a human face on early man, who he claims evidence shows was a lot like us

Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal poses in front of one of his art works on display in a new exhibition at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, in Warsaw, Poland, on June 15, 2021. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)

Top Polish artist confronts country’s Holocaust past in Jewish museum exhibit

By Vanessa Gera

Wilhem Sasnal says works needed because parts of Poland’s society refuse to acknowledge that, though occupied by Nazis, there were also Poles who joined in the crimes

New human remains found near Auschwitz likely of German POWs, experts say

By AP

Ice cream moves along the production line at Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream, in Waterbury, Vermont. on March 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot/File)

That's cold

Did Ben & Jerry’s stop using social media due to pro-Palestinian activism?

While the ice cream company founded by two Jewish hippies usually puts up some pretty sweet posts, its accounts have been eerily quiet since last month’s Israel-Gaza flare-up

More Headlines

Illustrative: Russian police guard outside the Israeli embassy in Moscow, on September 18, 2018. (AFP/Vasily Maximov)

Government to appoint 35 diplomats delayed by Netanyahu for over 6 months

Yitzhak Gabai, a member of the extreme right-wing Lehava organization, at the District Court in Jerusalem on December 1, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lehava activist probed for harassment served time for Jewish-Arab school arson

Israeli security forces foil an attempted weapons smuggling on the border with Lebanon, on June 18, 2021. (Israel Police)

Security forces foil gun smuggling from Lebanon masked as agricultural work

By Emanuel Fabian

The grave of an IDF officer who died in jail under unclear circumstances. (Screen grab/Kan)

Intelligence officer’s parents still searching for answers a month after death

By Emanuel Fabian and Judah Ari Gross

Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., meets June 14 with Orthodox constituents in a meeting organized by the Orthodox Union. (Screenshot via JTA)

Orthodox Union presses Congress to stand up for Israel

In this March 29, 2021, file photo, a woman holds a baby at Karatepe refugee camp, on the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos, Greece. (AP Photo/Panagiotis Balaskas, File)

Global displacement from war, crises doubles in a decade — UN

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit (left) with Gideon Sa'ar at a ceremony in Jerusalem, on June 14, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Attorney general appears to push back against Sa’ar’s plan to split the role

J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami addresses the liberal Zionist group’s annual conference in Washington, DC, in October 2019. (Courtesy)

J Street drops bid to join US Zionist umbrella group

Former president Nicolas Sarkozy (2nd right) arrives for a hearing in Paris, on June 15, 2021. (Christophe ARCHAMBAULT / AFP)

French prosecutors seek six months in jail for Sarkozy

By AFP

Stand-up comedian and actress Sarah Silverman talks about Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., at a campaign event at Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles Sunday, March 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Squad goalsMaybe add a Jewess to the Squad, comedian Silverman asks progressives

By Gabe Friedman

Meir Abergil of the Abergil crime family, seen in the District Court in Tel Aviv on July 18, 2018, (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Top mobster granted parole from prison

The New Yorker writer, Janet Malcolm, leaves the Federal Courthouse in San Francisco, California, on June 3, 1993. (AP/George Nikitin)

Janet Malcolm, New Yorker writer who challenged subjects, dies at 86

By Hillel Italie

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