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What Matters Most On Saturday, June 19, 2021

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Ebrahim Raisi, a candidate in Iran's presidential elections waves to the media after casting his vote at a polling station in Tehran, Iran, June 18, 2021 (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Hardliner Raisi wins Iran presidency in landslide, amid record-low voter turnout

Ultraconservative ‘executioner’ gets 62% of the vote, far ahead of rivals; without naming cleric, Rouhani says his successor has been elected

Ebrahim Raisi, Head of Iran's Judiciary, speaks during a ceremony on the occasion of first anniversary of death of late Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) general Qassem Soleimani, in Tehran, Iran, January 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Amnesty calls for new Iranian president to be probed for crimes against humanity

By AFP

Iranian ultraconservative cleric and presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi casts his ballot for the presidential election, in the capital Tehran, on June 18, 2021. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

ProfileIran’s Raisi: Ultraconservative ‘champion of the poor’ already sanctioned by US

By AFP

President Hassan Rouhani, left, speaks with the media after his meeting with President-elect Ebrahim Raisi, right, who is current judiciary chief, in Tehran, Iran, June 19, 2021. (Official Website of the Office of the Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Head of defense panel: Iran’s Raisi will be a ‘big challenge’ for Israel, West

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at the Knesset on June 13, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett said to ramp up engagement with US over its planned return to Iran deal

A member of the US Air Force stands near a Patriot missile battery at the Prince Sultan air base in al-Kharj, central Saudi Arabia, February 20, 2020 (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool via AP)

Seeking to ease Iran tension, US cuts Middle East troops, anti-missile batteries

By AFP

Palestinian Authority Health Minister Mai al-Kaila (WAFA)

Palestinian PM orders shots sent back

Palestinians cancel deal for Israel to supply 1 million COVID vaccines

By ToI Staff and Agencies

PA claims expiration date on doses Israel started to deliver is too close; Israel insists: The vaccines are fine

Hugo and Lucie Mendel on the balcony of their Tel Aviv apartment prior to Hugo's suicide in 1957. (Courtesy of Emanuel Rosen)

Refugee stripped of his profession sank into dark depression

How one brave woman held Germany accountable for father’s suicide in Tel Aviv

By Renee Ghert-Zand

In family memoir, ‘If Anyone Calls, Tell Them I Died,’ Emanuel Rosen examines grandfather’s tragic life and death after failed immigration to Israel due to 1930s Nazi persecution

View of a poster dated 1946 exhorting Poles from central and eastern Poland to move to the newly acquired western territories at the 'Displacement and Expulsion of Germans' exhibition in the 'Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion and Reconciliation' in Berlin taken on June 18, 2021 (John MACDOUGALL / AFP)

Museum gingerly explores suffering of Germans who fled Eastern Europe post-WWII

By Deborah Cole

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Netanyahu knows he’s no victim of election fraud. So why peddle the claim?

There’s more to the opposition leader’s rejection of the new government’s legitimacy than Trumpian denial. Victimhood, he well knows, has its uses

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu leads a meeting of right-wing parties in the Knesset on June 14, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, December 1, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

MKs demand probe into allegations Netanyahu shredded papers before transition

The Prime Minister's Residence on Balfour Street, Jerusalem, in an undated photograph. (Yaakov Saar/GPO)

Bennett tells Netanyahu to vacate official residence within 14 days — TV

Israeli swimmers Eden Blecher and Shelly Bobritsky catch their breath after their race in Barcelona, Spain, June 13, 2021 (video screenshot)

As Israeli swimmers passed Olympic trial, Spanish TV pundit decried ‘genocide’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Commentator Clara Basiana claimed ‘Israel’s international presence is another strategy for whitewashing genocide and violations of human rights against Palestinian people’

Vanessa Perilman attends a party in New York City on June 22, 2010 (Billy Farrell /Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

Zara distances itself from Israeli designer who bashed Palestinians

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Daphne Lazar Price

The future of female clergy is now

It is profoundly untrue that there is no room for women leaders. Smart, inspiring, learned women are already in key positions, and they will help lead the way

I’m a gay dad living my Iranian father’s American Jewish dream

I’ve found I can be a husband, loyal son and devoted Jew, in my own way, and a loving father to 2 boys who should never have been possible

Israeli soldiers patrol a road in Israeli-controlled southern Lebanon, March 31, 1996. (AP Photo/Yaron Kaminsky/File)

'It’s the place that turned us into the men that we are'

Two decades on, Israel confronts legacy of ‘forgotten’ south Lebanon occupation

By Lazar Berman

Now that the 18-year period is recognized as a campaign, with a medal for its soldiers, some security zone veterans look back and find unexpected relevance for them and the country

Joint List lawmaker Said al-Harumi. (courtesy)

Report: Wayward Ra’am MK could break away from faction, coalition

Channel 13 says Said al-Harumi, who abstained on government’s formation, is considering going rogue, costing coalition a crucial seat; but he might also quit Knesset altogether

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, left, with Minister of Communications Yoaz Hendel during a swearing-in ceremony of new Knesset members in Jerusalem, June 16, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

After first week in power, Bennett calls for Israelis to unite behind him

Smoke billows above buildings after an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City in the Gaza Strip early on May 15, 2021. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Islamic Jihad: We’ll hit back if Israel continues Gaza strikes

Terror leader issues threat if Israel doesn’t stop retaliating for balloon-borne attacks, end blockade on enclave; says Gaza groups have already formulated plan of action

The Iron dome anti-missile system fires an interceptor missile at rockets shot from the Gaza Strip toward Ashkelon, on May 19, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Pentagon chief confirms US will replenish Iron Dome interceptors

Illustrative -- Israeli security forces during clashes in the West Bank city of Hebron, May 10, 2021 (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Poll: Most American voters back banning Israel from using US funds to annex land

Illustrative: People wait in line to be tested for COVID-19 at Ben Gurion International Airport on March 8, 2021. (Flash90)

Travelers entering Israel allowed to skip COVID tests after airport overwhelmed

Ministry temporarily suspends rules for some as testing stations unable to keep up with influx of passengers ahead of Shabbat

US President Joe Biden speaks about reaching 300 million COVID-19 vaccination shots, in the State Dining Room of the White House, Friday, June 18, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden promotes milestone of 300 million vaccine shots in 150 days

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE

Steve Goode, far left, is biking across America to raise awareness about hunger by visiting Jewish delis. (Courtesy Goode/ via JTA)

80 million Americans may be forced to skip a meal this year

Biker takes his hog on ‘Great American Deli Schlep’ to raise hunger awareness

By Gabe Friedman

Motorcyclist Steve Goode is on a 75-day cross-country trek in which he’s partnered with the nonprofit Mazon to hit up 42 Jewish delis and spread knowledge about food insecurity

Then-US President Donald Trump arrives to speak at the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual leadership meeting, on Saturday, April 6, 2019, in Las Vegas, NV. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump says US Jews ‘don’t love Israel enough,’ because they didn’t vote for him

Former US president tells ultra-Orthodox magazine that he finds it ‘strange’ he got such a small chunk of the Jewish vote after doing so much for Israel

This still frame from Metropolitan Police Department body worn camera video shows Thomas Webster, in red jacket, at a barricade line at on the west front of the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington (Metropolitan Police Department via AP)

Chilling newly released footage shows brutal attacks on police at US Capitol

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER

Illustrative: Demonstrators in favor of LGBT rights rally outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, October 8, 2019. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

US Jewish organizations split over 9-0 Supreme Court ruling on LGBTQ foster care

Will Ferrell as the manipulated Jewish patient Marty Markowitz in the trailer for 'The Shrink Next Door' (screenshot)

TV treatment

‘Shrink Next Door,’ a dark Jewish-themed podcast, becomes a TV show

Limited series will star Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd in story of psychiatrist who takes control of the life of one of his patients

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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends a joint news conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov following the talks in Moscow, Russia, May 12, 2021. (Maxim Shemetov, Pool via AP)

Guterres reelected UN chief; Erdan urges him to work to end anti-Israel bias

By Edith M. Lederer and ToI Staff

New York Attorney General Letitia James is shown at a news conference at her office, in New York, Friday, May 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

New York AG: Town agrees to end housing practices meant to keep Hasidic Jews out

By AP

Rescuers pulling a boy who drowned from the sea near Tel Aviv on June 18, 2021. (Magen David Adom)

Boy, 7, drowns after disappearing off Tel Aviv coast

Illustrative: A man holding up a Palestinian flag shouts slogans during a protest against Israeli army strikes in the Gaza strip, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014, in Lisbon. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Lisbon mayor: Israeli embassy among several given personal details on protesters

By AP

Amanda Beckenstein Mbuvi had been a faculty member at High Point University in North Carolina. (Reconstructing Judaism)

Black Jewish Bible scholar to lead Reconstructionist rabbinical school

By Gabe Friedman

The scene of a deadly traffic accident involving an electric bike in Tel Aviv, June 19, 2021 (Magen David Adom)

Woman killed on bike in Tel Aviv, motorcycle rider killed in crash in the north

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