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What Matters Most On Thursday, June 24, 2021

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Various centrifuge machines line a hall at the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility, Iran on April 17, 2021. (Screenshot/Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting-IRIB, via AP)

Attack on Iranian nuclear site damaged centrifuge production facility – reports

By Judah Ari Gross and AP

Despite Tehran’s claims to the contrary, opposition sources say attempted sabotage reported earlier in the day was successful, hitting complex previous sanctioned by the US, UN

In this June 6, 2018 frame grab from the Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting, IRIB, state-run TV, three versions of domestically-built centrifuges are shown in a live TV program from Natanz, an Iranian uranium enrichment plant, in Iran. (IRIB via AP, File)

Iran nuclear site hit Wednesday was on list of targets Israel gave US – report

By ToI Staff and AP

Illustrative: Iranian Revolutionary Guard Commander Gen. Hossein Salami, left, and the Guard's aerospace division commander Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh talk while unveiling a new drone called 'Gaza,' in an undisclosed location in Iran, in a photo released on May 22, 2021. (Sepahnews of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, via AP)

Israel and US said to increase cooperation to combat Iranian drones

Nizar Banat, a West Bank Palestinian and resident of Hebron, who was arrested by the Palestinian Authority security services for criticizing the resumption of ties with Israel. (Screenshot: Facebook)

Prominent Abbas critic dies in PA custody after ‘vicious beating’ by officers

By Aaron Boxerman

Nizar Banat’s family says he was beaten severely by security forces as he was taken into custody on Thursday; PA says it will investigate the incident

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses a meeting of Fatah's Revolutionary Council, in a speech that was broadcast on Wednesday, June 23, 2021. (WAFA)

Breaking silence, Abbas says willing to work with new Israeli government, but…

By Aaron Boxerman

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, meets with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on May 25, 2021. (Majdi Mohammed/AP)

Biden administration says it’s pushing Ramallah to reform terror payment policy

Search and Rescue personnel work after the partial collapse of the 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building on June 24, 2021 in Surfside, Florida. (Photo by JOE RAEDLE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Some 20 Jews said to be among 99 missing following Florida building collapse

‘Hope is still there, but it’s waning,’ says city official as rescue teams continue search for those unaccounted for, after residential tower in heavily Jewish town caves in

8:12 pm

Shas party head Deri 'anxiously following the heavy tragedy in Miami'
7:02 pm

Miami police say 99 people still unaccounted for after building collapse
6:45 pm

US State Department 'deeply disturbed' by death of Abbas critic in PA custody, urges probe

Masked travelers in the departures hall at Ben Gurion Airport on June 23, 2021. (Flash90)

Israeli town turns ‘red’ due to COVID outbreak – the first in months

More than 1,000 people in Binyamina are in quarantine amid a spike in cases linked to the extra-contagious Delta variant

Arriving travelers at Ben-Gurion International Airport on June 23, 2021. (Flash90)

Israel delays reopening of borders to vaccinated tourists until August

From left to right: National coronavirus czar Nachman Ash, Health Ministry director-general Chezy Levy and Sharon Alroy-Preis, the ministry's head of public health, at a press conference in Jerusalem on June 23, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Virus czar: Not yet certain Israel ‘in control of this outbreak’

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Can the Haredi parties afford a long stay in the opposition?

The ultra-Orthodox community depends on government largesse; the narrow coalition needs Shas and United Torah Judaism to assure its hold on power. So why won’t they work together?

UTJ leader Moshe Gafni (left) and Shas leader Aryeh Deri at a press conference at the Knesset, June 8, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (L) and Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández inaugurate the new Honduran embassy in Jerusalem, June 24, 2021. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Honduras becomes 4th country to open embassy in Jerusalem

In his first meeting with a foreign leader since becoming PM, Bennett thanks visiting President Hernández for ‘having done a brave and justified deed for the State of Israel’

Then-education minister Naftali Bennett (L) and Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid during a ceremony at Netiv Ha'avot, at the West Bank's Elazar settlement, on July 23, 2017. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Lapid works to fill long-vacant posts of ambassador to France, Canada, Australia

By Lazar Berman

Construction work for new housing in the West Bank settlement of Modi'in Illit, on January 11, 2021. (Flash90)

In 1st for new government, building projects in West Bank settlements approved

Analysis

Netanyahu’s ouster creates diplomatic openings for Israel, if government holds

World leaders eager to get to work with Bennett and Lapid, but support comes with strings attached and the vast experience of the longtime leader could be missed

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and then-finance minister Yair Lapid at a signing ceremony for a new private port to be built in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 23, 2014. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and then-Opposition chairman Yair Lapid in Jerusalem on May 25, 2021. (Yair Lapid/Twitter)

Lapid to meet US Secretary of State Blinken in Rome next week

Demonstrators march to the Israeli Consulate during a protest against Israel and in support of Palestinians on May 15, 2021, in the Westwood section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

Poll: Many Democrats want more US support for Palestinians

By Ellen Knickmeyer and EMILY SWANSON

Ori Hanan Weisberg

Natan Sharansky, Un-Hero

How can someone of such inspirational courage, wit and humanity label those seeking to advance full equality between Jews and Palestinians as ’Un-Jews’?

I never thought I’d be afraid to be Jewish in France. But I am.

From an American in Paris: Till recently, the long history of antisemitism didn’t faze me, but these days I’m not wearing my Star of David necklace

Jerusalem Pride

This year, I marched against humiliation and ostracism of LGBT people in the religious world – and for seeing the divine image in every person

To fight ransomware hacks drain the cryptocurrency swamp

This kind of digital extortion – increasingly viewed as terrorism – would be impossible without the ability to move money around anonymously

The Daily Briefing

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Daily Briefing June 24 – Iran nuclear site attack; IDF lasers; IDF’s chief in DC

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A truck containing cylinder of uranium hexafluoride gas leaves Ahmadi Roshan uranium enrichment facility in Natanz to Fordo nuclear facility for the purpose of injecting the gas into Fordo centrifuges, November 6, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

Iran to rule on extending IAEA nuclear site inspections only after deal expires

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From left, Israel's Ambassador to the United States and United Nations Gilad Erdan, IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi and US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan meet in Washington on June 23, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

After Kohavi meeting, US reaffirms commitment to not let Iran get nukes

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

IDF chief blasts American plans to rejoin nuclear deal in meeting with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan

From left, Israel's Ambassador to the United States and United Nations Gilad Erdan, IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi and US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan meet in Washington on June 23, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

Meeting top US officials, Kohavi blasts American plans to rejoin Iran deal

By Judah Ari Gross

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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

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

Seven Arabs indicted for murder, terrorism in May killing of Jewish Lod man

5 defendants are residents of the city, 2 are West Bank Palestinians who were illegally in country; prosecutors say they aimed to ‘instill fear’

Defense Minister Benny Gantz speaks at a ceremony in memory of Israeli soldiers who were killed in the Second Lebanon War at the National Hall of Remembrance at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on June 24, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

At Lebanon war memorial, Gantz says next conflicts likely to need ground troops

‘We are keeping our eyes open, maintaining the routine, while remaining prepared,’ says defense minister at event marking 15 years from Second Lebanon War

Housing Minister Ze'ev Elkin arrives at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, for a group photo of the president and members of the new government, June 14, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

Housing minister said to offer deputy ministership to Islamist Ra’am

Ze’ev Elkin, Mansour Abbas both confirm report but deny it is connected to coalition’s efforts to win Arab party’s backing for extending ‘family reunification law’

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett with Minister of Justice Gideon Saar during a swearing-in ceremony of new MKs at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, June 16, 2021.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

At ‘victory’ event, Bennett vows to make Yamina the party of government

Portrait of the Jerusalem Supreme Court Judge, Esther Hayut, on May 10, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Bennett holds ‘introductory meeting’ with Supreme Court Chief Justice Hayut

By Raoul Wootliff

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, December 25, 2018. (Adam Shuldman/Flash90)

Flurry of tech IPOs buoys renaissance for Tel Aviv Stock Exchange

By Shoshanna Solomon

Once shunned by local firms, the TASE is now seeing massive growth and hoping to use dual-listings to lure the biggest prizes yet: billion-dollar unicorns

The ironSource management team in March 2021. (Courtesy)

ironSource shares start NYSE trade next week after SPAC deal gets final nod

By Shoshanna Solomon

Democratic mayoral candidate Eric Adams speaks at his primary election night party, June 22, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen).

Ex-police captain who got crucial Orthodox support leads NYC primary

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Eric Adams jumps out to 1st place in Democratic race, the winner of which is expected to be elected New York’s next mayor

Team Israel pitcher Jeremy Bleich in a 2018 interview. (YouTube)

Pirates analyst and southpaw pitcher heads to Tokyo Olympics with Team Israel

By Sarah Abrams

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Gilad Shalit marries Nitzan Shabbat on June 23, 2021. (Screenshot: Aviv & Tali Videographers)

Gilad Shalit gets married, 10 years after release from Hamas captivity

Illustrative: Police tape marks off a Chicago street as officers investigate the scene of a fatal shooting in the city's South Side on June 15, 2021. (AP Photo/ Teresa Crawford/File)

Israeli-born doctoral student in US fatally stabbed while visiting Chicago

Holocaust Survivor Margot Friedlander, right, is greeted by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, center, and German Minister of Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas, left, after speaking at a ceremony for the launch of a US-Germany Dialogue on Holocaust Issues at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, June 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

US, Germany launch initiative to combat rising antisemitism, Holocaust denial

Animals that are made out of recycled material are on display at the interactive exhibit about the story of Noah's Ark, at the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, June 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Jewish Museum in Berlin opens kids’ exhibit about Noah’s Ark

By Kirsten Grieshaber

An adult cicada in Washington, May 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Crunch time?Cicadas are edible. But are they kosher?

By ISABELLA LEFKOWITZ-RAO

Iliza Shlesinger arrives at the CMT Music Awards at the Bridgestone Arena on June 9, 2021, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/John Amis)

Iliza Shlesinger becomes a leading lady in ‘Good on Paper’

By Lindsey Bahr

In this May 19, 2021 file photo, a licensed practical nurse draws a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine into a syringe at a mass vaccination clinic at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

US to add heart inflammation warning for COVID mRNA vaccines for teens

By AFP and ToI Staff

The site where a synagogue bleacher collapsed in a syngogue in the Givat Zeev neighborhood of Jerusalem, leaving at least 2 killed and injuring around 160 more, a few in serious condition, on the eve of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot. May 16, 2021. (Noam Revkin Fenton/FLASH90)

40 days after disaster, synagogue bleacher collapse claims third fatality

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko speaks during a meeting with Commonwealth of Independent States officials in Minsk on May 28, 2021. (Dmitry Astakhov/POOL/AFP)

Belarus’s Lukashenko blasts ‘Nazi’ Germany after new Western sanctions

By AFP

After being arrested on federal corruption charges, Murray Huberfeld, the founder of a New York-based hedge fund Platinum Partners LP, leaving United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in New York City, June 8, 2016. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images via JTA)

Jewish philanthropist and former hedge fund exec gets 7 months in NYC bribe case

Illustrative: In this March 27, 2020 file photo, US soldiers stand guard during the hand over ceremony of Qayyarah Airfield, Iraqi Security Forces, in the south of Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/Ali Abdul Hassan)

Pentagon translator gets 23 years for leaking informants’ names to Hezbollah

By AFP

Cuban anti-government protesters demonstrate outside the UN on June 23, 2021 as the UN holds a session on the necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the US against Cuba (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP)

Israel again only country to support US as UN condemns Cuba embargo

By Edith M. Lederer

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