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What Matters Most On Sunday, June 27, 2021

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Rescue workers search in the rubble at the Champlain Towers South condominium, June 26, 2021, in the Surfside area of Miami (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Lapid: We stand with our American friends in difficult times

Israel sends IDF team to Florida to assist with tower collapse rescue efforts

By Emanuel Fabian

Home Front Command delegation of 10 reservists flies to Miami; Israel’s United Hatzalah sends psychological assistance team; Bennett speaks to governor and offers help

Surfside’s Jewish community unites in face of building collapse tragedy

By Cyril Julien

For Jewish burial societies, Surfside disaster presents a grim and complex task

From cracked columns to saltwater: Theories swirl over collapse of Miami tower

By Curt Anderson and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN

Rabbi Eliot Pearlson, in kippah, leads a psalm reading as he speaks to members of his congregation in the wake of the collapse of the Champlain Towers in Surfside, Fla., June 25, 2021. Pearlson, who has a number of his congregates among those missing, is the rabbi at Temple Menorah just a few blocks from the collapsed condos. (Zack Wittman for The Washington Post via Getty Images via JTA)

Reporter's notebook

Surfside Jewish community prays for the missing — and braces for the worst

Community leaders say they know 40 of the 159 declared missing in the building collapse to be Jewish; rabbi laments the ‘rough road’ ahead for the families

Grandparents, doctors, teachers, college students among 156 Surfside missing

By AP

Makeshift identification spot for Surfside missing turns into memorial site

By Cyril Julien

Jewish man missing in Miami collapse was visiting for friend’s COVID funeral

By Adriana Gomez Licon

Fire and smoke deep within rubble hamper rescue effort at Florida tower collapse

By Russ Bynum and FREIDA FRISARO

Rescuers use infrared technology, water and foam to battle the blaze, whose source is unclear; 159 people still unaccounted for

Members of the South Florida Urban Search and Rescue team look for possible survivors in the partially collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building on June 26, 2021, in Surfside, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

Collapsed Florida condo building was in need of $9 million in repairs

By Curt Anderson and Bernard Condon

Members of the South Florida Urban Search and Rescue team look for possible survivors in the partially collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building on June 26, 2021 in Surfside, Florida. (JOE RAEDLE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Death toll in Florida building collapse rises to 5 as another body found

By AP

Israeli trucks carrying diesel fuel enter the Kerem Shalom crossing on the Israel-Gaza border, October 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Live updates (closed)

Israel to renew Qatar-funded fuel shipments to Gaza

Gasoline deliveries to resume on Monday after being halted by Jewish state following recent fighting between Israeli military, Hamas

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Shaked said to propose temporarily barring quarantine violators from leaving Israel
6:14 pm

Jewish man describes escaping Florida tower: Building collapse took a few minutes
6:13 pm

Exit polls indicate French far right defeated in regional elections

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Yousef and Nawal Jaroushi were shot dead along with their 16-year-old daughter in northern Israel on June 26, 2021. (Courtesy)

Parents and teen daughter killed in drive-by shooting near northern Arab town

By Emanuel Fabian

Another 9-year-old girl also wounded in attack on Ramle family who recently moved to Galilee region; separate overnight shooting targets Route 90 restaurant; woman killed in Arara

Medics and security forces are seen at the scene of the shooting in Lod, on June 27, 2021. (Courtesy)

Man shot dead in Lod in latest attack in suspected organized crime feud

By Emanuel Fabian

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

Bennett announces national plan to fight crime in Arab community

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (R) at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, June 27, 2021 (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Bennett: Young people must get vaccinated to avoid reinstatement of restrictions

‘Masks instead of restrictions, vaccines instead of lockdown,’ says PM as he appeals to teenagers; Roni Numa appointed to handle airport policy

People at a shopping center in the northern city of Kiryat Shmona, on June 25, 2021. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Health Ministry mulling outdoor mask recommendation, restrictions on gatherings

ToI investigates

Simona Weinglass

Behind Bennett’s Payoneer payday, a firm that profited off smut and alleged cons

Leaked US Treasury documents reveal that the soon-to-go-public company, where the new prime minister was an early investor, did business with bottom feeders of the internet

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 20, 2021. (Alex Kolomoisky/POOL)

Naftali Rothenberg

‘Zionist’ chief rabbi? Not necessarily

What if the best choice for chief rabbi does not come from the national religious camp? Rummaging through a candidate’s Zionism credentials is bad precedent

This is why East Jerusalem is near boiling point

Right-wing extremists have become increasingly brazen in their efforts to drive out the local Palestinian population and settle Jews in their stead

Jewish men wearing protective face masks pray at a synagogue in the Jewish settlement of Efrat, Gush Etzion, June 27, 2021. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

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Daily Briefing June 27 – How does the Delta variant threaten vaccinated Israel?

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The newly appointed members of the Meron disaster commission: Commission chair and former chief justice Miriam Naor, right, former Bnei Brak mayor Rabbi Mordechai Karelitz, left, former IDF planning chief Maj. Gen. (res.) Shlomo Yanai, 2nd left, and sitting Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut, 2nd right, who chose the commission members, on June 27, 2021. (Courtesy Courts Authority)

Gantz: Panel's conclusions 'will save lives in the future'

Former chief justice Naor to head Meron disaster probe, with sweeping mandate

Mordechai Karelitz, former Bnei Brak mayor, will be Haredi voice on 3-member panel, alongside IDF’s ex-head of planning; April 30 tragedy claimed 45 lives, mostly ultra-Orthodox

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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

US then-vice president Joe Biden, right, walks with President Reuven Rivlin during their meeting at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, March 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Analysis

Aiming to keep disagreements behind closed doors, Rivlin heads to Washington

In 1st formal meeting between an Israeli official and Biden since inauguration, Israeli president aims to set out positions of Bennett’s government, bridge chasms Netanyahu created

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)

In final trip as president, Rivlin heads to US to meet Biden, Pelosi

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

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

Lapid set for first meetings with top US, Bahraini diplomats in Rome

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Dr. Fidaa Wishah was fired this week after accusing Israel of "cannibalism." (Screenshot from Twitter via JTA)

Phoenix Children’s Hospital fires doctor who accused Israel of ‘cannibalism’

In social media post, Fidaa Wishah, a Palestinian-American pediatric radiologist, also warned Jewish state, ‘your end is coming sooner than you think’

Analysis

Protests after death of Abbas critic reflect growing crisis over PA’s legitimacy

Death of Nizar Banat, allegedly beaten to death in Palestinian Authority custody, was ‘straw that broke the camel’s back’ for some Palestinians, says former minister

A man stands with his chest bared during clashes between Palestinian protesters and Palestinian security forces in the West Bank city of Ramallah in the West Bank, on June 26, 2021, following a demonstration against the death of human rights activist Nizar Banat while in the custody of Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces earlier in the week. (Abbas Momani / AFP)

Workers remove the rubble of a building destroyed by an airstrike in Gaza City, Tuesday, June 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Israeli team to travel to Cairo, convey new Gaza ceasefire position – report

By Emanuel Fabian

In this May 28, 2020 file photo, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf speaks after being elected as speaker of the parliament, in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Iran: Nuclear site images won’t be given to IAEA, since inspection deal expired

By ToI Staff and Agencies

UN nuclear watchdog says it received no reply from Tehran over an extension to the already temporary agreement, which lapsed last week

Illustrative: Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh during a press conference in Tehran, on February 22, 2021. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iran says it won’t negotiate forever, but believes nuclear deal can be saved

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a video conference with a group of university students, in Tehran, Iran, on May 11, 2021. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

US said to weigh removal of sanctions on Iran’s Khamenei amid nuclear talks

By ToI Staff and Agencies

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Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki speaks with the media at the end of an EU summit in Brussels, on December 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

‘Poland will not pay’: Polish PM hits back at Lapid criticism of restitution law

Then-Haifa district prosecutor Amit Aisman during a conference at Haifa University, on November 23, 2017. (Screenshot/Youtube)

Aisman okayed as state prosecutor; 3 ministers abstain over past sexist remarks

The illegal settlement outpost of Evyatar, in the West Bank, on June 27, 2021. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

‘Bring tents’: Evyatar activists try to stop razing of illegal West Bank outpost

A mosquito bites a person. (iStock from Getty Images/fotomarekka)

Israeli startup wins IBM top prize to Zzapp out malaria by mapping water sources

By Shoshanna Solomon

MK Itamar Ben Gvir visits the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, on June 27, 2021. (Screenshot: Facebook)

Extreme-right MK Ben Gvir visits Temple Mount: ‘We demand full sovereignty’

Israeli actor Moshe Ivgy arrives at the Haifa Magistrate's Court for the verdict in his trial, January 9, 2020 (Flash90)

Prosecutors seek 3-year sentence for actor Moshe Ivgy in sexual assault cases

MK Mansour Abbas at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ra’am leader expects compromise to be reached on family reunification law

Protesters are detained by police in central Istanbul, June 26, 2021. Police used tear gas to disperse the crowds and detained dozens of LGBT activists as hundreds defied a ban and tried to stage a gay pride event. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Istanbul police fire tear gas, disperse ‘banned’ Pride parade; 25 said arrested

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Audrey Strauss, acting US attorney for the Southern District of New York, points to a photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell during a news conference in New York, July 2, 2020. (John Minchillo/AP)

Ghislaine Maxwell loses bid to ban perjurious testimony from criminal trial

By Larry Neumeister

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

In non-apology, NYC Republican mayoral candidate rejects antisemitism accusation

Israeli actress Shira Haas receives the prize for Best Supporting Actress at the 2018 Ophir Awards, sometimes called the Israeli Oscars, in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, September 6, 2018. (Flash90)

Barbra, can you hear me?Haas recalls excitement when Streisand offered her part of Golda

By ToI Staff and JTA

Barcelona's Lionel Messi celebrates with team mates scoring the opening goal during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between FC Barcelona and Celta at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain, May 16, 2021. (AP/Joan Monfort)

Game onFC Barcelona set to play preseason match against Beitar Jerusalem

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