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What Matters Most On Monday, June 28, 2021

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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 27, 2021 in Surfside, Florida. (Giorgio Viera / AFP)

Florida rescuers spot voids in the rubble as they dig feverishly for survivors

By TERRY SPENCER and Russ Bynum

Family members of the over 150 missing linger around site of fallen 12-story building, as search efforts enter fifth day; death toll stands at 9

Gabriel Nir in an interview aired by Channel 13 news on June 27, 2021, after the deadly collapse of a residential building in Surfside, Florida. (Screen capture: Channel 13)

Mother’s instinct sent family scrambling to safety, says Miami collapse survivor

By Stuart Winer, ToI Staff and Agencies

An IDF search-and-rescue team arrives at the site of the deadly high-rise residential building collapse in Surfside, Florida, June 27, 2021. (Giorgio Viera/ AFP)

IDF delegation begins work at Florida disaster site as death toll rises to 9

By Amy Spiro and Agencies

Israeli settlers march with flags at the illegal West Bank outpost of Evyatar on June 21, 2021. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Compromise reached to prevent razing of illegal West Bank outpost

Evyatar residents accept deal with government to vacate the site in favor of a yeshiva; authorities to examine whether settlement can be legalized

MKs Idit Silman of Yamina (right) and Miki Zohar of Likud attend an Arrangements Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 28, 2021 (composite image: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Answer like a good girl’: Likud’s Zohar hurls abuse at coalition whip Silman

MK later apologizes to Yamina lawmaker, who condemns his ‘kindergarten tactics’; Lapid, Netanyahu tussle over reunification law

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

Yamina MK says she’s receiving death threats against herself and family

A man uses a microphone in a demonstration outside the home of Yamina party leader Naftali Bennett, at the time still in negotiations to form a government, in Ra'anana, on June 4, 2021. ( Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

After complaints from local residents, police limit protests at Bennett’s home

US President Joe Biden and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin (L) hold a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, June 28, 2021. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Biden to Rivlin: Iran will never get a nuclear weapon on my watch

By Michael Bachner

White House talks between Israeli, US presidents expected to focus on nuclear deal, Gaza Strip; meeting comes as Rivlin is set to end his seven-year term next week

8:33 pm

Biden to Rivlin: Iran will never get a nuclear weapon on my watch
8:27 pm

Rivlin to Biden: Israel has no greater friend than the US
8:02 pm

Rivlin arrives at White House for meeting with Biden

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meet in Rome, June 27, 2021 (Stefano Meloni, Israel Embassy Rome)

Lapid also holds talks with Bahraini, Italian counterparts

Lapid to Blinken: Mistakes were made in US-Israel relationship, we’ll fix them

By Lazar Berman

In Rome, new foreign minister tells US counterpart that Jerusalem has ‘serious reservations’ about Iran nuclear deal, but promises to express them quietly

President Reuven Rivlin casts his ballot at a voting station in Jerusalem, during the Knesset elections, March 23, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Rivlin prepares to talk substance at largely ceremonial Biden meeting

By Tal Schneider

President Reuven Rivlin addresses American Jewish community leaders in New York on June 27, 2021. (Haim Zach/GPO)

American Jewish leaders laud Rivlin at NYC farewell event

Thank you Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, you finally said the words

Till now, Israel failed to tell Eastern European allies the plain truth: They are distorting Holocaust history and must own up to their complicity in the murder of Jews

Un-Jews use Trojan horse slogans that delegitimize Israel and Zionism

For some Jews, mere criticism is no longer sufficient. Language that demonizes and delegitimizes the Jewish state has crept into common parlance

In defense of the NYU Tel Aviv campus

An illogical, hypocritical boycott of the university’s study in Israel program deprives students of a golden chance to get deeply educated about the conflict

Humanity as a real piece of work

Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Captain Picard’s insistence on the good in people strongly echoes God’s own vote of confidence in mankind, as told by the sages

Polish Ambassador to Israel Marek Magierowski in Jerusalem on October 11, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel, Poland summon each other’s envoys over Holocaust restitution law spat

Foreign Ministry official tells Polish envoy not too late to walk back legislation; Lapid: ‘We’re not interested in Polish money. We are fighting for the pride of our people’

Israeli Ambassador Gilad Erdan speaks at the UN in New York in January 2021. (Shahar Azran/ Israeli Mission to the UN)

Gilad Erdan to step down as ambassador to US, will continue as UN envoy

By ToI Staff and Tal Schneider

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Family members of those missing from Champlain Towers South Condo collapse arrive back at the reunification center after visiting the scene in Surfside, Fla., Sunday, June 27, 2021. Rescuers keep digging through the mound of rubble and clinging to hope that someone could be found alive. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

Calling out to loved ones, family members allowed to visit Florida disaster site

By TERRY SPENCER and Russ Bynum

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

Photos of missing residents are posted at a makeshift memorial at the site of a collapsed building in Surfside, Florida, north of Miami Beach, on June 26, 2021.(Andrea SARCOS/AFP)

Family of missing Florida couple got 16 calls from them — and heard only static

By ToI Staff and Agencies

From left to right, Jordan's King Abdullah II, Iraqi President Barham Salih, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, prepare to meet in the presidential palace in Baghdad, Iraq, June 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

ToI podcast

Daily Briefing June 28 – Are Iraq, Jordan & Egypt the Mideast’s new peacemakers?

Tune in Sunday through Thursday to hear ToI editors and reporters quickly catch you up on what’s important today

Iraqi President Barhah Saleh (C) receives his Egyptian counterpart Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi (R), and Jordan's King Abdullah II, in the capital Baghdad on June 27, 2021. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP)

With tripartite summit, Iraq, Egypt and Jordan pitch ‘common vision’ for Mideast

A Hamas security officer checks a truck entering Gaza at the Kerem Shalom cargo crossing with Israel, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, June 21, 2021. (Adel Hana/AP)

Qatar-funded fuel enters Gaza via Israel for 1st time since May fighting

By Aaron Boxerman and ToI Staff

An undated clandestine image of a Nazi-led forced march. (Courtesy US Holocaust Memorial Museum)

'Exhaustion wasn't enough; they attacked with machine guns'

London exhibition focuses on ‘overlooked and understudied’ Nazi death marches

By Robert Philpot

Wiener Holocaust Library highlights early postwar efforts to investigate ‘mobile concentration camps’ and the identity of their victims

Times of Israel Community

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

A Palestinian man, on the rooftop of his home, looks at Gaza's power plant after it was shut down, in the town of Nusairat, central Gaza Strip, August 18, 2020. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

Israel to begin allowing Qatar-funded fuel into Gaza on Monday

By Aaron Boxerman

In apparent attempt to strengthen fragile ceasefire, Jerusalem will let fuel through Kerem Shalom crossing; Israeli security official denies report broader deal reached

Illustrative: A Hamas police officer walks in front of large portraits of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, while Hamas leaders meet with Egypt's intelligence chief Abbas Kamel in Gaza City, May 31, 2021. (Adel Hana/AP)

Bennett talks to Egypt’s Sissi for 1st time as PM; they agree to meet

People walk with face masks in Jerusalem on June 27, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

In first meeting, coronavirus cabinet decides against major new restrictions

Health Ministry chief resigns, as new minister expected to make own appointment; travelers to blacklisted countries will pay NIS 5,000 fine

A woman shows her 'Green Pass' as she arrives at a theater in Jerusalem, on February 23, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Virus experts urge vigilance: Bring back Green Pass now, maybe more rules soon

By Nathan Jeffay

Then-coronavirus czar Nachman Ash attends a press conference in Jerusalem on June 23, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Coronavirus czar Nachman Ash named as new Health Ministry director-general

Illustrative: An F-35 fighter jet pilot and crew prepare for a mission at Al-Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates, August 5, 2019. (Staff Sgt. Chris Thornbury/US Air Force via AP)

US airstrikes target Iran-backed militia in Iraq, Syria over drone attacks

By AFP and ToI Staff

Biden authorizes strikes on 3 targets used to launch drone attacks on US soldiers, bases in the Middle East; monitor says at least 5 Iraqi fighters killed; Syria says child killed

Iran says it’s still mulling UN nuclear inspector access to nuclear site footage

By Nasser Karimi

Iran claims it has drones capable of flying 7,000 kilometers

Iraqi PM denounces US strikes on pro-Iran fighters amid calls for revenge

By Laure Al Khoury and Tony Gamal-Gabriel

Tom Dugan in a rehearsal for 'Tevye in New York.' (Courtesy of The Wallis/ via JTA)

Theater reviewThe 100 socially distant audience members double as extras

‘Tevye in New York’ imagines ‘Fiddler’ hero’s life beyond Anatevka

Sholem Aleichem’s beloved protagonist has the stage all to himself in Tom Dugan’s one-man show, driving home the immigrant experience at LA’s Wallis Theater through July 25

Illustrative image: researcher examining a bacterial culture plate (iStock)

Israeli life sciences firms raised record $2.5 billion in 2020 – report

By Shoshanna Solomon

The 2020 figure represents a 55% year-on-year surge in funding in digital health, medical devices, biotech and pharma firms, IATI says; M&A deals plunge

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People walk past a photo exhibition of the last survivors of the Holocaust as part of the 'Lonka project,' at Safra Square in Jerusalem, April 8, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Female Holocaust survivor’s portrait defaced for 3rd time at Jerusalem exhibit

Congestion on the Ayalon highway, March 30, 2021. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Over $9 billion annually: Environment Ministry assesses pollution’s price tag

Palestinians hold posters depicting human rights activist Nizar Banat during a protest triggered by his violent arrest and death in the custody of Palestinian Authority security forces, in his hometown of Hebron in the West Bank, on June 27, 2021. (Mosab Shawer/AFP)

Palestinian labor minister to quit amid protests over activist’s death

By AFP

Screen capture of a Malaysian website annoucing the hack of a database containing the details of hundreds of thousands of Israeli students in higher education institutues. (DragaonForce)

Pro-Palestinian hackers steal info on hundreds of thousands of Israeli students

By Stuart Winer

Bavaria's governor Markus Soeder, left, and the mayor of Wuerzburg, Christian Schuchardt, attend a memorial service for the victims of a brutal knife attack that left three women dead, in Wuerzburg, Germany, June 27, 2021. (Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/dpa via AP)

Christian, Muslim, Jewish leaders at memorial for Germany knife attack victims

By AP

Palestinians scuffle with Israeli soldiers outside of al-Tuwani, southeast of Yatta, in the South Hebron Hills in the West Bank, on January 1, 2021. (Screenshot)

Israeli activists raise funds for Palestinian shot, paralyzed by IDF

French far-right National Rally party's leader and member of parliament Marine Le Pen speaks to the press at the party's headquarters after the first results in the second round of the French regional elections in Nanterre on June 27, 2021. (Photo by GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP)

Le Pen’s far-right party beaten in French regional elections

By AP

From the upcoming Jerusalem Design Week opening July 1, 2021 at Hansen House (Courtesy Alon Sarid, Dana Ben Shalom, Amit Portman)

Back by designJerusalem Design Week focuses on escapism at Hansen House

By Jessica Steinberg

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