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What Matters Most On Friday, June 25, 2021

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Rescue workers look through the rubble where a wing of a 12-story beachfront condo building collapsed, Thursday, June 24, 2021, in the Surfside area of Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Biden declares emergency in Miami condo collapse as rescuers race against time

By ToI Staff and Agencies

At least 34 Jews believed among the 159 missing after collapse of 12-story residential tower that Israeli-born professor says may have been sinking for years

Rescue worker walk among the rubble where a wing of a 12-story beachfront condo building collapsed, Thursday, June 24, 2021, in the Surfside area of Miami. (AP/Lynne Sladky)

Many members of Jewish community feared among 99 missing in Miami condo collapse

By AP and ToI Staff

Search and Rescue personnel work at a partial collapse building in Surfside, Miami Beach, on June 24, 2021. (CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP)

Jewish groups scramble to help after condo collapse amid grim search for missing

By JTA and ToI Staff

Israelis, some wearing masks, shop at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on June 24, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel reimposes indoor mask requirement as daily cases top 200

Renewed mandate comes into force at noon on Friday; virus czar warns the spread of COVID is accelerating, but stresses the number of seriously ill patients remains low

Israelis shop at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on June 24, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Officials mulling cap on crowds if renewed COVID mask mandate fails — report

Israelis wear protective face masks as they walk in Tel Aviv on March 11, 2021. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Israel media reviewComeback COVID: What the press says about masking faces and looking for Jews

By Joshua Davidovich

This undated image provided by Tel Aviv University in June 2021 shows a virtual reconstruction of a human ancestor mandible found in Nesher Ramla. (Ariel Pokhojaev, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University via AP)

Archaeology'Different skull structure, no chin, and very large teeth'

Fossils found in Israel are ‘last survivors’ of ‘missing’ type of extinct humans

By CHRISTINA LARSON

Researchers say ‘Nesher Ramla Homo’ may have lived alongside Homo sapiens for over 100,000 years, and may have interbred with our species

Display of mother’s Star of David headstone revives talk of Elvis’s Jewish roots

60 years after her death, a new exhibition showcases the headstone of Elvis Presley’s mother, Gladys, featuring both the Jewish symbol and a cross, designed by Elvis himself

People participate in the annual Pride Parade, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, June 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Tel Aviv Pride Parade returns with fanfare after last year’s COVID cancellation

Heavy police presence secures the event in which tens of thousands are participating, as Health Ministry recommends wearing masks even at crowded outdoor pride festivities

Mourners walk in a funeral procession with the body of Palestinian Authority critic Nizar Banat, who died shortly after being arrested by the PA a day before in Hebron on June 25, 2021 (Photo by MOSAB SHAWER/AFP)

‘Get out Abbas’: Thousands protest at funeral of activist who died in PA custody

By Aaron Boxerman

Palestinians pack into Hebron mosque to pay last respects to Nizar Banat, a social media activist who died after ‘vicious beating’ during arrest by Palestinian security services

Angry demonstrators carry pictures of Nizar Banat, an outspoken critic of the Palestinian Authority, and chant anti-PA slogans during a rally protesting his death, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on June 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

US joins calls for probe into death of outspoken Abbas critic arrested by PA

By Aaron Boxerman, AP and Jacob Magid

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)

Hamas flag banned in Germany under new terror law

By AFP

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Practical tools to keep your kids safe in the summertime

Teach your teens to be healthy and safe while they have fun, or forbid too much, and they’ll likely stop listening and do their own (more risky) thing

Daniel Stein Kokin

Praying for the Arizona monsoon

When Jewish prayer talks about weather, it’s the weather of Israel – and borrowing its motifs to pray for a southwest US wrecked by drought seemed exactly right

US President Joe Biden speaks after visiting a mobile vaccination unit in Raleigh, North Carolina on June 24, 2021. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Congressional Democrats urge Biden to reverse Trump moves on Israel

Letter from 73 representatives calls on US president to recognize settlements as illegal and West Bank as occupied, and to consistently condemn sides for harming peace

An illustrative photo of construction of new apartment buildings in Har Homa in East Jerusalem, October 28, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

UN urges Israel to immediately halt building in West Bank, East Jerusalem

By Agencies and ToI Staff

United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, center, gestures to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, right, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, left, at a meeting at a hotel in Jerusalem, on February 19, 2007. (Flash90)

‘Abbas never said no’ to 2008 peace deal, says former PM Olmert

By Lazar Berman

People protest against then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside his official residence in Jerusalem on January 16, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Anti-Netanyahu protest group closes shop after ex-PM ousted: ‘We won’

With swearing in of new government that saw Israel’s longest-serving premier replaced, Black Flag movement declares ‘immediate threat to Israeli democracy has been removed’

Residents of the central city of Ra'anana hold a public meeting to complain about the increased security measures around the private home of new Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, June 22, 2021. (Screen capture: Channel 13)

PM Bennett’s Ra’anana neighbors vexed by protests, increased security

A man wearing a Stronger Than Hate Yamulke stands outside the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019, the first anniversary of the shooting at the synagogue, that killed 11 worshippers.(AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Pittsburgh Jewish Federation urges vigilance after alleged antisemitic acts

Group’s security director notes rash of incidents, which included an assault that left a Jewish man with broken bones, came amid rising antisemitism over Israel-Hamas fighting

Illustrative: Terrance Floyd speaks at the unveiling of a statute dedicated to his brother George Floyd at Flatbush Junction on June 19, 2021, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images via AFP)

George Floyd statue in New York defaced with neo-Nazi graffiti

By AFP

In this image from video, former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin listens as the verdict is read in his trial for the 2020 death of George Floyd, on April 20, 2021, at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Court TV via AP, Pool)

Minneapolis ex-cop set to be sentenced for George Floyd murder

By Kerem YUCEL and Charlotte Plantive

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks at a graduation ceremony for new Israeli Air Force pilots at the Hatzerim airbase in southern Israel, June 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Bennett appears to hint at Israeli involvement in attack on Iran nuclear site

By Judah Ari Gross

In one of his first speeches as PM, leader says that while Israel will defend itself, it will also work with allies to block an Iranian bomb, breaking from Netanyahu’s policy

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) and French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian attend a joint press conference at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris, on June 25, 2021. (GONZALO FUENTES/POOL/AFP)

Blinken: Return to Iran deal could be ‘very hard’ if talks drag on

By AFP and ToI Staff

Iran's Governor to the International Atomic Energy Agency Kazem Gharib Abadi, Political deputy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran Abbas Araghchi, and Deputy Secretary General and Political Director of the European External Action Service Enrique Mora stand in front of the Grand Hotel Vienna, where where closed-door nuclear talks take place in Vienna, Austria, on June 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Lisa Leutner)

Gaps remain in Iran nuclear talks, but deal still possible, US official says

By Jacob Magid and AFP

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The New York Times’s South Asia bureau chief Jeffrey Gettleman (far right), reporting during the coronavirus pandemic from India. (Courtesy)

Times Will Tell

Podcast: NYT India correspondent on ‘nightmarish’ Delta variant COVID wave

No stranger to danger while reporting, Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times’s South Asia bureau chief, talks about the challenges and horrors of covering a deadly pandemic

Poland's lawmakers during voting – some in parliament, some remotely – in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday, May 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Israel slams new Polish Holocaust law as ‘immoral’ and ‘a disgrace’

The legislation, which must still be approved by Poland’s senate, sets a 30-year deadline for Jews to recover seized property

Auschwitz survivor Marian Turski delivers a speech during commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the the Auschwitz death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on Jan. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Holocaust Survivor Day honors those who lived on

By AFP

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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 to further ease restrictions on Gaza border crossing, extend fishing zone

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Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa smiles during a campaign event, on June 21, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

NYC GOP mayoral hopeful said Orthodox Jews trying to ‘take over your community’

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Elsie Doll is interviewed by Channel 12 news on June 23, 2021. (Screen capture/Channel 12)

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Slovakian ex-educator teaches Roma teens about Holocaust at Jewish cemeteries

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Ebrahim Raisi, who went on to win Iran's presidential election, waves after casting his vote at a polling station in Tehran, Iran, on June 18, 2021. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

AnalysisRaisi’s rise signals more monolithic, but more hardline, power structure in Iran

By Stuart Williams

National Security Guard soldiers inspect the site of a blast near the Israeli Embassy in New Delhi, India, on January 30, 2021. (Dinesh Joshi/AP)

India arrests 4 over January blast outside Israeli embassy

In this November 25, 2020 file photo, former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, speaks at a hearing of the Pennsylvania State Senate Majority Policy Committee in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. (AP/Julio Cortez, File)

Giuliani’s New York law license suspended over false comments on election fraud

By AP

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Police recommend string of corruption charges against Or Akiva mayor

Detail of the Night Watch's left side, showing how Rembrandt's biggest painting just got bigger with the help of artificial intelligence in Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

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