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What Matters Most On Tuesday, June 22, 2021

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A couple in the midst of an argument (tommaso79 via iStock by Getty Images)

Unhappy marriages can be fatal, increasing male death rate by 19%: Israeli study

By Nathan Jeffay

Misery during marriage is ‘risk factor just like smoking,’ say Tel Aviv researchers, leaving men 69% more likely to die from a stroke

A screenshot of a statement that appears on the website of Iranian-run presstv.com. (Screen capture)

Live updates (closed)

US seizes websites of Iranian state media outlets

Several sites operated by Iran display statement referring to American sanctions; Tehran accuses US of working with Israel, Saudi Arabia ‘to block pro-resistance media’

7:07 pm

Lapid and Pelosi discuss US-Israel ties in phone call
6:38 pm

White House concedes US won't hit July 4 COVID goal
6:03 pm

US seizes websites of Iranian state media outlets

Travelers at the Ben Gurion International Airport, on June 21, 2021. (FLASH90)

Daily COVID cases surge to 125, the highest figure in months

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Health officials say heavy fines to be imposed on those who visit banned high-infection countries or break quarantine when returning from abroad

An Israeli youth receives a Covid-19 vaccine, at the Clalit Covid-19 vaccination center in Petah Tikva, on June 6, 2021. (Flash90)

Israel pushes vaccines for teens as fast-spreading Delta variant stokes fears

A bottle of Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine doses, which expires June 2021, seen after shots from the bottle were administered to Israeli teens on June 21, 2021. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

Health chief: Same vaccines rejected by PA being given to our kids ‘right now’

Reporter's notebook

Back in COVID mode, Binyamina residents fear new wave starting under their noses

As Israel returns to post-pandemic life, in this small town quarantine orders keep arriving and masks are back in use amid concerns that celebrations were premature

Shai Berlin behind a newly re-erected Perspex screen in his hardware store in Binyamina on June 21, 2021. (Nathan Jeffay/Times of Israel)

Joint List MK Osama Saadi (R) and Religious Zionism MK Itamar Ben Gvir (L) argue during an event at the Knesset titled ,After 54 years: From Occupation to Apartheid,, June 22, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Terrorist,’ ‘fascist’: MKs hurl insults at Knesset ‘occupation-apartheid’ event

Far-right Itamar Ben Gvir has shouting match with Arab, left-wing lawmakers at gathering in parliament attended by rights groups and co-hosted by coalition’s Mossi Raz

Lehava chairman Benzi Gopstein, right, and his attorney (now MK), Itamar Ben Gvir, left, arrive at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, June 8, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90, File)

Knesset defense panel head calls for designating far-right Lehava a terror group

A car is set on fire during clashes between Arabs and Jews in Acre, northern Israel, on May 12, 2021. (Roni Ofer/Flash90)

Arab man charged with attempted murder over Acre stoning

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

A Palestinian demonstrator is arrested by Israeli security forces during protests in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of in the Sheikh Jarrah on June 21, 2021. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

20 Palestinians, 1 Israeli wounded in fresh clashes at East Jerusalem flashpoint

Ra'am MK Walid Taha attends a Knesset Arrangements Committee meeting, on June 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ra’am MK says party will vote against the Palestinian family reunification law

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (L) with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (2L) and Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar (2R) in the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament on June 21, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90)

Coalition meeting on Palestinian family reunification ends without breakthrough

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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

A religious prime minister will showcase the beauty of Jewish practice

How can Naftali Bennett observe the Sabbath while running the country? Must he refrain from shaving? Should he employ a shabbos goy? Halacha has the answers

A new LGBT agenda for the government of change

The new coalition can do plenty: crack down on ’conversion therapy,’ offer financial help to trans people, address hate crimes, expand adoption options and so much more

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

Lapid confident West Bank outpost Evyatar to be razed

By Shalom Yerushalmi

FM says illegality of outpost, which has sparked deadly clashes between the army and local Palestinians, is ‘not a question of right or left’

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky and his grandson Yaakov (Yanki) Kanievsky (L) at the former's home in the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak on September 22, 2020. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

Spiritual leader of Haredi party opposes West Bank settlements, grandson says

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Israelis march with a national flag along a hillside near the settlement of Bat Ayin in the West Bank on June 21, 2021, as right-wing activists and settler leaders hold 14 simultaneous marches to stop 'illegal Arab control' in Area C. (Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)

Hundreds of settlers march against Palestinian construction

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)

In Washington, IDF chief warns US against rejoining Iran nuclear deal

By Judah Ari Gross

Meeting with American counterpart, Kohavi lays out Israeli opposition to 2015 accord, saying it paves way to an Iranian bomb

Iran raps US ‘interference’ after Washington says its elections not free or fair

By AFP

AnalysisIran’s election of hardline president unsettles Biden’s hope for a nuclear deal

White House says Biden has no plans to meet Raisi

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett arrives for his first cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 20, 2021. (Emmanuel Dunand/Pool Photo via AP)

Reporter's notebook

A changing of the guard, as Bennett’s new government hits the ground running

Substantive decisions made on key issues – a Meron commission of inquiry and power-sharing bylaws – highlight the difference between the new coalition and Netanyahu’s

New Hope MK Zeev Elkin (L) seen in the plenum hall of the Israeli parliament during the voting in the presidential elections, in Jerusalem, June 2, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

Elkin accuses ex-ally Netanyahu of paying ‘thugs’ to protest outside his home

Illustrative: Idit Silman at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Coalition whip fires back at Haredi lawmaker after he calls her ‘a little girl’

Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and head of the Likud party leads a faction meeting in the Knesset on June 21, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90P)

Top officials said to accuse Netanyahu of sacrificing US ties for political gain

Diplomatic officials tell Channel 12 that former prime minister is attempting to drive a wedge between Bennett-Lapid government and Biden administration

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

Former Supreme Court justice Tzvi Tal at the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 17, 2009. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Tzvi Tal, ex-Supreme Court justice who headed Haredi IDF draft panel, dies at 94

By Michael Bachner

Religious judge’s recommendations were behind a later-nullified law that let yeshiva students delay military service; he convicted Nazi guard Demjanjuk, nuclear spy Vanunu

The crowd in the moments before the Mount Meron tragedy, April 30, 2021 (Screen grab)

Police said to question 2 top Hasidic figures over Mount Meron disaster

Toldos Aharon officials reportedly suspected of negligent homicide over event where 45 people were crushed to death; cabinet has okayed state commission of inquiry

Then-police commissioner Roni Alsheich (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a welcoming ceremony for Alsheich at the start of his term, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, December 3, 2015. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90/ File)

Report: Ex-top cop who oversaw Netanyahu probe advised anti-Netanyahu protesters

A high-powered laser system installed on a Cessna aircraft as part of a test of the system by the Defense Ministry and Elbit Systems weapons contractor in June 2021. (Defense Ministry)

In test, Defense Ministry shoots down drone with plane-mounted laser

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli official says ground-based system, capable of intercepting rockets, mortar shells and UAVs, is expected to be in use by end of 2024

People at a rally call to free a woman whose husband refused to grant her a Jewish divorce, Brooklyn, March 21, 2021. (Anna Rathkopf/ via JTA)

Brooklyn’s loud, wide-open race to succeed a tainted Jewish city councilman

A gaggle of Jewish candidates will vie on June 22 for the heavily Jewish 48th District’s Democratic nomination – and personality seems to be as much a factor as ideology

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Join ToI Community for an evening of learning and levity with Benji Lovitt

In a ToI Community exclusive live comedy event on Tuesday, June 29, Lovitt will show us pivotal moments in Israeli history – and the humor that accompanied them

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Then-US secretary of state John Kerry is seen at the State Department to mark the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, on July 29, 2013. (AP/Charles Dharapak)

US denies asking PA to assemble negotiating team for peace talks

Mathias Dopfner, CEO of the German publisher Axel Springer, speaks at the opening of the company's award ceremony in Berlin, March 18, 2021. (Bernd von Jutrczenka - Pool/Getty Images via JTA)

German publisher tells workers to go if they oppose Israeli flag on headquarters

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The gay pride flag displayed alongside the flag of the State of Israel and that of the Foreign Ministry, outside the Foreign Ministry building, in Jerusalem, on June 21, 2021. (Foreign Ministry)

Lapid orders pride flag displayed at Foreign Ministry, sparking ire on far-right

Zsolt Balla, state rabbi of Saxony, stands in the synagogue in Leipzig, Germany, on June 21, 2021, after his induction into the office of Military Rabbi of the Armed Forces. (Hendrik Schmidt/dpa via AP)

German military installs its first rabbi in a century

By AFP

After New York City kosher restaurants mistakenly sent out Pride emails, Mendy's apologized. (Screenshots of emails via JTA)

Two New York City kosher restaurants send Pride emails, then apologize

Illustrative. A payments system hacker. (Welcomia; iStock by Getty Images)

Transmit Security, aiming to end passwords, gets massive $543 million in A round

By Shoshanna Solomon

Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib (94) celebrates after the Las Vegas Raiders holds on to defeat the Los Angeles Chargers on the last play of the game during an NFL football game, Sunday, November 8, 2020, in Inglewood, Calif. (AP Photo/Peter Joneleit)

Carl Nassib becomes first active NFL player to come out as gay

By ARNIE STAPLETON

Bassem Awadallah, a former royal adviser, leaves a state security court in a vehicle after the first session of his trial, in Amman, Jordan, June 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Jordanians on trial for sedition plot plead not guilty

By Karin Laub and OMAR AKOUR

A Palestinian employee walks at the Pepsi bottling plant in Gaza City, June 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Israeli restrictions blamed as Pepsi factory closes in Gaza

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Employees of SentinelOne in Tel Aviv (Courtesy)

Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne seeks $7 billion valuation in NY IPO

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: Soldiers train in Kitzbuehel, Austria on January 23, 2021. (Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images via JTA)

A cross to bearAustrian soldier in trouble for pics of swastika tattoo on testicle

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Israeli archer Itay Shanny. (Courtesy)

Take a bowIn first, Israeli archer to compete in Tokyo Olympics

By Michael Bachner

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