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Head of the Yesh Atid party Yair Lapid speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset on June 21, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Lapid: Likud government left behind ‘unbelievable’ destruction and neglect

Gantz says coalition is working to come to agreement on Palestinian family reunification law, and he ‘expects the opposition leader not to play games’ with Israel’s security

Outgoing health minister Yuli Edelstein at a ceremony to install his replacement, held at the Health Ministry in Jerusalem, on June 14, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Gunning for Netanyahu, Edelstein said to accuse him of ‘all possible mistakes’

Then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on April 20, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Report: PMO staff describes ‘significant’ paper shredding before Bennett arrival

Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and head of the Likud party leads a faction meeting in the Israeli parliament on June 21, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90)

Netanyahu: Lapid’s ‘no surprises on Iran’ pledge to US endangers Israel

Foreign and defense ministers refute claim by opposition chief, who made a similar commitment to Washington when he was PM

Travelers line up for COVID-19 testing at the Ben Gurion International Airport, on June 20, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)

Appointments for teens to get inoculated soar

As virus infection rate rises once more, health experts say: Don’t panic

40% of cases in past month said to come from abroad, amid Delta variant fears; Binyamina designated ‘yellow’ town; but professionals say Israel likely protected from serious wave

An Israeli youth receives a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Rishon LeZion on June 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Daily Briefing June 21 – Israel sees COVID surge, PA rejects vaccine transfer

Travelers at the Ben Gurion International Airport, on June 20, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)

Government orders stepped-up COVID screening at airport, quarantine inspections

Iran's new President-elect Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a press conference in Tehran, Iran, June 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran’s Raisi says won’t meet Biden or negotiate on missiles, support for proxies

By Agencies and ToI Staff

In first press conference since win, president-elect says the Islamic Republic will continue to be ‘a defender of the oppressed people including the Palestinians’

AnalysisRaisi’s win in Iran means nuclear deal must be done by August 3 or not at all

By Lazar Berman

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi leaves the 'Grand Hotel Vienna' where closed-door nuclear talks take place in Vienna, Austria, June 12, 2021. (Florian Schroetter/AP)

Iran’s nuclear envoy: We’re closer to deal than ever, but US must make decisions

By Agencies and ToI Staff

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi, center-right, and US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, center-left, salute outside the US Department of Defense in Washington, DC, on June 21, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

IDF chief in Washington warns against return to Iran nuke deal

By Joshua Davidovich

In first visit since Biden took office, Aviv Kohavi tells top Pentagon officials that existing pact allows Tehran to make ‘significant advances’ in nuclear program

7:10 pm

Rivlin's office in talks to hold meeting with Congressional leadership while in DC
6:51 pm

Visiting US, Kohavi raises objections to nuclear deal
6:38 pm

Bennett meets with Ra'am's Abbas to hash out family unification law deal

In this August 20, 2010, photo, an Iranian security guard walks past a gate of the Bushehr nuclear power plant as its reactor building is seen in background, just outside the city of Bushehr 750 miles (1,245 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran says nuclear power plant shutdown was due to ‘technical fault’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Bushehr facility taken off power grid for a number of days; national electricity company calls on Iranians to minimize consumption during peak hours

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

Iran’s sole nuclear power plant undergoes unexplained emergency shutdown

By AP and ToI Staff

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid arrives at the president's residence in Jerusalem for a group photo of the new government, June 14, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Lapid confirms plans for landmark visit to UAE next week

By Lazar Berman

Trip will be first by Israeli minister to Gulf state, and Lapid’s first as foreign minister; he will officially inaugurate Israeli embassy in Abu Dhabi

Journalists work in a studio of television channel i24news in Tel Aviv, Israel, July 28, 2013 (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Israel’s i24News channel to open Dubai office

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers inspect cars at a checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus on January 10, 2018. (Jaafar/Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Coalition MK to co-host ‘occupation-apartheid’ Knesset event

Meretz’s Mossi Raz, Joint List’s Touma-Sliman to hold conference at parliament; Yamina’s Chikli slams ‘disgrace,’ asks legal adviser to block participation of Human Rights Watch

Interior Minister, Ayelet Shaked at a ceremony at the Interior Ministry in Jerusalem on June 14, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lacking a majority, vote to extend Palestinian family reunification ban delayed

A view of houses in the unrecognized Bedouin village of Sawaneen in Israel's southern Negev Desert, on June 8, 2021. (Hazem Bader/AFP)

Israel’s Bedouin doubtful of positive change under new government

By AFP and ToI Staff

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Yahya Sinwar, leader of the Hamas terrorist group in Gaza, gestures during a rally in Beit Lahiya on May 30, 2021. (Atia Mohammed/ Flash90)

Hamas says UN talks to bolster ceasefire going nowhere

By Aaron Boxerman

Terror group’s Gaza chief Sinwar says Israel ‘did not get our people’s message’ after meeting with United Nations special envoy

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at a state memorial ceremony marking even years since Operation Protective Edge at the National Memorial Hall at the entrance to the military cemetery on Mount Herzl, June 20, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett warns Hamas: ‘Our patience has run out’

A truck passes into Gaza through the Kerem Shalom crossing, the main passage point for goods entering the Strip from Israel, on May 18, 2021. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Israel relaxes some Gaza restrictions, as ceasefire diplomacy continues

By Aaron Boxerman

The holiness of returning to summer camp

In a normal year, camp is the most abnormal part of my life. But this year, camp will mark a much-needed return to normalcy

Not every ultra-Orthodox woman wants to be a teacher

The women know they’ll earn more with a higher degree. The colleges and universities welcome them. And the teaching seminaries push hard to keep them local

What if Israel’s diverse new coalition faced its disagreements head-on?

The government has begun shoring up its own instability, improving citizens’ daily lives, and stopping its member parties from going too far. It can do more

Liberman’s legacy: The epilogue is being written

As finance minister, the Yisrael Beytenu party chair is finally in a position to affect socio-economic change, especially in the ultra-Orthodox sector

Rabbi Rachel Kahn-Troster spent a decade with the human rights group T’ruah, including years advocating on behalf of farmworkers. Earlier this year, she left to become the executive vice president of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility. (Courtesy of Kahn-Troster/ via JTA)

Interview'Our community can use its assets as catalysts for change'

Rabbi wants US Jews to be more involved in boardroom battles for social justice

Executive VP of the ICCR, a group of 300 institutions controlling $4 trillion in assets, Rachel Kahn-Troster says the Jewish community can pressure companies to act more ethically

A plane transporting the first batch of Pfizer vaccines arrives at Ben Gurion Airport on December 9, 2020. (Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90)

Three countries said to ask Israel for vaccine doses Palestinians don’t want

By Aaron Boxerman and ToI Staff

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

Israelis and Arabs demonstrate in support of coexistence in Tel Aviv on June 5, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Mixed city rioting injects new urgency into peacebuilding push

By Jake Epstein

Saying violence in Lod and elsewhere showed challenges of building shared society, organizers redouble efforts for sustainable long-term fund

Border police patrol the streets of the central Israeli city of Lod after riots. May 19, 2021 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

TV: Police chief formally okays use of low-caliber bullets for riots in Israel

Tourism Minister Yoel Razvozov at the beach, June 19, 2021 (video screen grab)

The body politic

Minister’s beach pics go viral; PM: ‘Stop putting the men to shame’

Cabinet members poke fun at Tourism Minister Yoel Razvozov after footage of his chiseled body is a hit online; he responds that he’s just helping market Israel’s coastline

Israelis light candles for the 45 victims who were killed in a crush at Mount Meron during the Lag B'Omer celebrations, at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv. May 2, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Meron probe to target politicians, police officials, religious figures – report

Government will allocate NIS 6 million to commission of inquiry expected to investigate behavior of former ministers Amir Ohana, Aryeh Deri, and Yaakov Litzman

Yaron Carni, fourth from left, David Friedman, center, and Steven Mnuchin, sixth from left, at the offices of Maverick Ventures Israel meeting with local entrepreneurs; June 17, 2021 (Michael Novoselov, Perimiter81)

Steven Mnuchin, David Friedman visit Tel Aviv to check out startups

By Shoshanna Solomon

Mnuchin is setting up investment fund backed by Gulf states; during visit last week, the US visitors were hosted by investment firm Maverick Ventures Israel

Illustrative. A mobile phone connected to a 5G network. (AndreyPopov; iStock by Getty Images)

Israel’s Cellwize to supply Intel with software that launches 5G networks

By Shoshanna Solomon

More Headlines

Chef Nir Sheynfeld, right, with colleagues at the Moshava food truck. (Moshava/Instagram)

Philadelphia food festival canceled after uproar over disinviting Israeli vendor

Elena, 7, center, lines up with other displaced Tigrayans to receive food donated by local residents at a reception center for the internally displaced in Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, on May 9, 2021 (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

UN calls for action on worst ‘cascade of human rights setbacks in our lifetimes’

By AFP

Roya Khalil Abu Ajaj (Courtesy)

Girl, 2, dies after being left in car for over six hours in south

By Stuart Winer

Vlad Logionov after winning the Israel Road Race Championships, on June 19, 2021 (video screenshot)

In his wheelhouseAmateur cyclist, a dancer and barista, is new national champion

Settlers seen in the Illegal Evyatar outpost, in the northern West Bank, on June 16, 2021. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

IDF rejects appeal against plans to raze illegal West Bank outpost

By Emanuel Fabian

Jordan's King Abdullah II gives a speech during the inauguration of the 19th Parliament’s non-ordinary session, in Amman, Jordan, on December 10, 2020. (Yousef Allan/The Royal Hashemite Court via AP)

Jordan begins sedition trial of those nabbed in alleged April coup attempt

French far-right leader Marine le Pen, center, talks to media after laying a wreath during a ceremony in Paris on May 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

French far-right party falters in early regional election results

By AFP

Yoaz Hendel speaks at a conference in Ramat Gan on September 8, 2019. (Flash90)

Internet reform to see merger of ISP, infrastructure subscriptions

By Emanuel Fabian

The Simply Piano app by JoyTunes (YouTube screenshot)

Music-app maker JoyTunes said to be new Israeli unicorn with Google investment

By Shoshanna Solomon

The Khal Zichron Menachem Synagogue in Brooklyn (Google Maps)

Bullet fired at Brooklyn synagogue on Shabbat, no injuries

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