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What Matters Most On Sunday, June 20, 2021

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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (C) leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, June 20, 2021. (Amit Shabi/POOL)

Bennett: Hardliner Raisi’s election a sign for world powers to ‘wake up’ on Iran

By ToI Staff and Agencies

PM says Islamic Republic ‘must never be allowed to have weapons of mass destruction’ as negotiators meet in Vienna; Iran’s nuclear envoy says sides are closer to deal than ever

This satellite photo provided from Planet Labs Inc. shows Iran's Natanz nuclear facility on Wednesday, April 14, 2021. Iran began enriching uranium Friday, April 16, 2021, to its highest level ever at Natanz, edging closer to weapons-grade levels to pressure talks in Vienna aimed at restoring its nuclear deal with world powers after an attack on the site. (Planet Labs via AP)

TV: Israeli officials warn ‘no choice’ but to ready attack plans after Raisi win

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, right, hosts a bilateral meeting with Defense Minister Benny Gantz, left, at the Pentagon in Washington on June 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

US said to boost military cooperation with Israel, Mideast allies to hinder Iran

Palestinians receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in the West Bank city of Hebron, on March 27, 2021. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

PA says it wants to renegotiate terms of vaccine deal with Israel, Pfizer

By Aaron Boxerman

Palestinians return 90,000 doses already sent by Jerusalem, which had planned to deliver over 1 million before PA canceled agreement

Palestinians receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in the West Bank city of Hebron, on March 27, 2021. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Israel insists vaccine shipment rejected by Palestinians ‘perfectly sound’

The Bushehr nuclear power plant outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran. (AP Photo/Mehr News Agency, Majid Asgaripour, File)

Live updates (closed)

Iran’s sole nuclear power plant undergoes emergency shutdown

Official from state electric energy company says stoppage will last 3-4 days, does not provide reason

6:29 pm

Edelstein privately says Netanyahu 'made every mistake possible' -- report
5:58 pm

BBC: Israel to start easing restrictions on Gaza Monday morning
5:40 pm

Iran’s sole nuclear power plant undergoes emergency shutdown

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US to press on with Vienna nuclear deal talks after Raisi win

By AFP and ToI Staff

Hezbollah’s Nasrallah welcomes win by Iran’s Raisi: ‘A shield against Israel’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Russia, Syria, Turkey and Hamas congratulate Iran’s Raisi on election win

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Fifth grade students at the Alumot Elementary School in Efrat, on February 21, 2021 (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

School shut as kid's dad tests positive after Dubai trip

School mask mandate reimposed in Modiin and Binyamina amid outbreaks

Students required to wear face coverings in both indoor and outdoor areas; Modiin mayor makes masks mandatory indoors for everyone across the city

Illustrative: A healthcare worker takes swab samples from Israelis at a coronavirus drive-thru testing station in the central city of Ramle on April 18, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

After COVID case found at show, all attendees briefly ordered to quarantine

Illustrative: Israeli students wearing face masks return to school in Tel Aviv on April 18, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

In 2nd school outbreak, 44 kids catch COVID — apparently the Delta variant

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Yigal Yehoshua, 56, was killed by rioters who pelted his car with bricks while he drove home in Lod, May 11, 2021. (Courtesy)

6 Arab Israelis, 2 Palestinians nabbed over murder of Lod man in May

By Judah Ari Gross

7 of the men believed to have been directly involved in killing Yigal Yehoshua during riots last month, while the 8th is suspected of destroying evidence, throwing rocks

Two police cars are set on fire in the town of Deir al-Asad in northern Israel amid a clash between residents and officers, on June 19, 2021 (Screenshot/Twitter)

11 arrested in overnight raids after police, residents clash in Arab town

Sheikh Kamal Khatib of the Islamic movement, right, is brought to arraignment in a Jerusalem court after being arrested for provoking riots on the Temple Mount and East Jerusalem, October 4, 2009. (Matanya Tausig/Flash90)

Islamic Movement Northern Branch deputy released after incitement accusation

Medical technicians test passengers for COVID-19 at the Ben Gurion International Airport on March 8, 2021. (Flash90)

Thousands of Israelis allowed to enter country without mandatory COVID test

Health Ministry promises to follow up and test all those who arrived Friday without undergoing a check, although it’s unclear when that will happen

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

Israel said eyeing new limitations on arrivals amid fears of Delta variant

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (5th left) leads his first cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 20, 2021. (Amit Shabi/POOL)

Families of victims welcome 'important decision'

In 1st cabinet meeting, new government okays state inquiry into Meron disaster

By Raoul Wootliff

PM Bennett urges unity within diverse coalition, says coalition will continue ‘determinedly opposing Iran reaching a nuclear weapon’; IDF chief Kohavi’s tenure extended by a year

Israel's new government led by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, in the Knesset, June 13, 2021. (Noam Moscowitz /Knesset)

Coalition scrambles for way to extend ban on Palestinian family reunification

Regional Cooperation Minister Esawi Frej arrives at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, June 14, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Meretz’s Frej won’t back extending ban on Palestinian family reunification

Lessons from my father, a former slave laborer

The human capacity for boundless cruelty and for kindness, the importance of dignity and of gratitude, and the mind as one’s most precious asset

Jeffrey T. Kuvin

My father the optimist taught us to heal the world

Dr. Sanford Kuvin proved collaboration between scientists from nations with a history of antagonism is both possible and potentially productive

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu answers questions on Twitter Live at his official residence in Jerusalem, May 12, 2016 (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu agrees with Bennett he’ll vacate PM’s official residence by July 10

Joint statement says no official meetings will be held at Balfour until new PM moves in, after Netanyahu met Nikki Haley there a day after new government took office, hosted MKs

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, April 20, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

PM’s office expected to probe claims Netanyahu shredded papers before transition

File: An Israeli Navy submarine sails in front of a Sa'ar 5-class corvette in the waters south of Tel Aviv as part of the Israeli Navy's flotilla in honor of Israel's 70th Independence Day on April 19, 2018. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Gantz orders fresh probe of submarine scandal after previous one floundered

By Judah Ari Gross

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (facing camera) leads his first cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, June 20, 2021. (Amit Shabi/Pool)

Government appoints 36 diplomats, a move held up by Netanyahu for over 6 months

By Lazar Berman

Ambassadors to key allies, including EU, Japan, Jordan, Brazil, Vatican are approved; Foreign Minister Lapid says the envoys have waited too long

Outgoing foreign minister Gabi Ashkenazi speaks at a ceremony welcoming his replacement, Yair Lapid, at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on June 14, 2021. (Flash90)

Ashkenazi: ‘I spoke with most FMs in Mideast countries we’ll have ties with’

Palestinians receive financial aid from Qatar at a post office in Gaza City, June 20, 2019. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

UN to play role in new method of transferring Qatari money to Gaza — report

Suitcases of cash will no longer enter enclave, report says; Israel security cabinet to meet for 1st time, reportedly to approve plans for possible fighting with Gaza terror groups

Palestinians holding Hamas movement green flags attend a protest in solidarity with Muslim worshipers in Jerusalem, in Gaza City, April 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Germany set to ban Hamas flag amid rise in antisemitic attacks — report

Then-US vice president Joe Biden, right, poses for a photo with President Reuven Rivlin, left, during a meeting at the president's official residence in Jerusalem, March 9, 2016. (AP Photo/ Sebastian Scheiner)

Biden to host Rivlin at White House next week

Outgoing Israeli president to make Washington trip before ending seven-year term on July 7

Palestinian Authority General Intelligence Services chief Majed Faraj speaking in Hebron on June 11, 2018. (Screenshot: Youtube)

PA delegation in Washington for first security consultations of Biden era

'The pandemic has evoked painful, war-era memories for them'

Swiss woman helps Holocaust survivors weather pandemic’s 2nd trauma – loneliness

By Robert Sarner

Second-generation survivor Anita Winter helps her parents’ generation with material and emotional assistance as they grapple with the global health crisis in their twilight years

A still of William 'B.J.' Blazkowicz from 'Wolfenstein: The New Order.' (Screenshot)

Playing at stereotypes

A brief history of Jewish video game characters

By Mimi Halpern

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David Ben Gurion signs Israel's Declaration of Independence on November 29, 1947. (Hans Pinn/GPO)

Write on?Did Ben-Gurion use this pen to sign Declaration of Independence?

Clair Labs has developed a sensor-based device that provides contactless monitoring of patients for their physiological markers by tracking light particles reflected off their skin. The device here is mounted at the side of a hospital bed (Courtesy)

Clair Labs raises $9 million to monitor patients remotely by ‘reading skin’

By Shoshanna Solomon

Then-Britain's Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow at the State Opening of Parliament at the Palace of Westminster in London, June 4, 2014. (Matt Dunham/AP)

UK’s ex-speaker Bercow defects to Labour with scathing critique of Johnson

By AFP and ToI Staff

A woman walks through an exhibition by American artist and filmmaker Laura Poitras, near the art work 'Anarchist' by Poitras in collaboration with Henrik Moltke, at the N.K.B. gallery in Berlin, Germany, on June 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

NSA to NSO: Filmmaker examines US surveillance, Israeli spyware and the pandemic

By Frank Jordans

Rescue services work at the scene of a deadly car crash in the West Bank, on June 19, 2021. (Magen David Adom)

3 Palestinians killed, Israeli seriously hurt in West Bank car crash

By Emanuel Fabian

Police investigate the scene where a pickup truck drove into a crowd of people at a Pride parade on June 19, 2021 in Wilton Manors, Florida. (Jason Koerner/Getty Images/AFP)

Pickup truck driver plows into crowd at Florida Pride parade, killing 1

By AP

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